Hi Daniel, On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 10:06 AM Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net> wrote: > > If there is a way that notmuch, git, and other subcommand-style tools > should be annotating their manpages to avoid triggering this lintian > report, please update lintian's tag description to point to how to do > this.
So far, I learned that 'man' interprets two commands by default as a sub-command [1] but I do not know how to tell from a man page that it is for a sub-command like 'git add' instead of a command called git-add. I do not believe there is an annotation for it, although there probably should be. Unless someone has a better idea, I think we have parse the output generated by 'groff -man -Tascii'. Similar to man's strategy [1] a man page would be deemed to relate to a sub-command when the first two words in the synopsis, connected by a hyphen, are the same as the file name. Kind regards Felix Lechner [1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/32750157
