Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have added symlinks from /usr/bin/dictunzip and >/usr/bin/dictzcat to /usr/bin/dictzip. The manpage for dictzip >includes the following: > >NAME > dictzip, dictunzip, dictzcat - compress (or expand) files, > allowing random access > >SYNOPSIS > dictzip [options] name > dictunzip [options] name > dictzcat name > > The commands man dictunzip and man dictzcat properly display this >manpage, but lintian gives the following errors: > >E: dictd: binary-without-manpage dictunzip >E: dictd: binary-without-manpage dictzcat > > The gzip package has a similar situation with gunzip and zcat, >but it has created gunzip.1 and zcat.1 as hardlinks to gzip.1. Since >man can deal with a manpage with multiple names, this seems like an >unnecessary complication.
Please install dictunzip.1 and dictzcat.1 as symlinks or hardlinks. If you don't, man has to decompress substantial parts of /usr/share/man looking for your man page (if catman hasn't run recently, which it might not have done), which is horrendously inefficient and probably the most common complaint I hear about man. man may stop supporting this in the future, precisely because it unavoidably causes such a usability problem immediately after you've installed some new man pages which it has to search. I should really find out how many packages behave in this way and get policy clarified on this point. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
