On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 04:40:04PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > teTeX comes with some manpages of section "1L" according to the header > entry in the file, and lintian complains about > > W: tetex-bin: manpage-section-mismatch usr/share/man/man1/makeindex.1.gz:9 1 > != 1L > > It is clear that a manpage in Debian should not have such a section, > however I would like to know whether this is Debian- (or > Linux-)specific, so that we should change it during packaging, or > whether I should ask upstream to change it. Dr. Google wasn't helpful, > unfortunately.
I think lintian is way too pedantic here. It doesn't actually make any particular difference to anything; the only thing I know of that programmatically cares about the section in .TH is dh_installman, and if that were a problem for you you'd already know about it. However, man page sections do vary between Unixes, so it seems reasonable to change this in the packaging. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
