-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- What does "each binary should have a manpage" exactly means?
*---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 19:15:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Fearnley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Santiago Vila Doncel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#13839: gawk manpage symlink is completely useless. 'Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:' > >On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote: > >> $ ls /usr/bin/gawk* >> /usr/bin/gawk /usr/bin/gawk-3.0.2 >> >> There should be a man page for each binary. > >There is only *one* binary: > >$ ls -li gawk* > > 54187 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 150160 mar 7 1997 gawk > 54187 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 150160 mar 7 1997 gawk-3.0.2 > >This manpage is not needed at all, unless you want to read "there should >be a man page for each binary" as "there should be a man page for each >item in /usr/bin". Someone submits automated bug reports if a file in /usr/bin doesn't have a man page. So unless policy clarifies this, I'll keep the symbolic links in /usr/man. Feel free to discuss this on debian-policy and let me know the result. - -- Christopher J. Fearnley | Linux/Internet Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Design Science Revolutionary http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf | Explorer in Universe ftp://ftp.netaxs.com/people/cjf | "Dare to be Naive" -- Bucky Fuller -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNEMx2CqK7IlOjMLFAQH94gQApI4g+fJehU2zJWFxa7sbQz3KiluxPtw1 r1h40Wv7gXaIlu/ik94bYUrzwvBDQfPxxDJObWGxpcx9OQgB/eSgcd1PYnVs1QET t9RGxhY3RrJdjo21Ar+iNZEQ2F8O9GE9YDTiUdmrWfFGimMEFyZw6y7fYaIgPv6r Iekly/pqKag= =T5Rn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
