package bzr-builddeb severity 517494 serious thanks On 01-Mar-2009, Ben Finney wrote: > On 28-Feb-2009, James Westby wrote: > > I'm interested in why you feel providing a man page that points > > users to the preferred way to get the help for the tool is a bad > > thing? > > Preferred by whom? The Debian operating system has a deliberate > policy of providing a manual page for every command, precisely so > that there is a *single* preferred place to get at the information > that a manual page provides for commands.
After seeking discussion on policy §12.1 in the Debian forums[0], the apparent consensus is that, yes, a proper and maintained manpage for every command in a package is requirement for compliance with policy. Accordingly, this reported bug is of ‘serious’ severity. [0] Message-id: <[email protected]>, <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/03/msg00068.html> -- \ “I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, | `\ when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still | _o__) more complicated.” —Paul Anderson | Ben Finney <[email protected]>
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