In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrot >> You may mark this bug as forwarded and make a link of tzconfig.8 to >> undocumented(7), following policy. >> >This policy has created one of the most cluttered, ugly, and useless, >method of dealing with the lack of man pages. > >It doesn't create any useful man pages.
Nor was that the point of the policy. >I leaves my system with a river of error messages, almost every time I use >the man page system to find a man page. These messages are reporting all >the policy generated man pages that are linked to a non-existant >undocumented(7). That's because you must not have the manpages package installed, which I find difficult to believe. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]:_debian> locate undocumented /usr/bin/dh_undocumented /usr/man/man1/dh_undocumented.1.gz /usr/man/man1/ilu-undocumented.1.gz /usr/man/man2/undocumented.2.gz /usr/man/man3/undocumented.3.gz /usr/man/man7/undocumented.7.gz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]:_debian> dpkg -S /usr/man/man7/undocumented.7.gz manpages: /usr/man/man7/undocumented.7.gz >Now, I not only get told at the end that no man page was found, but I also >have to put up with the stream of messages telling me of all the man pages >that have a dangling link attatched to them! > >A minimal man page that says "this space temporarily left blank" would be >far preferable to the current setup. > >I am not on the policy list, so please keep me on the CC list. I see no valid arguments against policy here. Policy says ever application in the standard paths should have a manpage, even if that manpage says "no manpage". The fact that we have broken links has nothing to do with policy per se. I do see a valid complaint that the /usr/man/man7/undocumented.7.gz file doesn't seem to be a *required* file, which can lead to lots of broken links as you seem to be seeing. Dale, can you confirm you do *not* have the manpages package installed? I'll raise the issue as a bug against 'base-files' once I'm sure what the problem you're experiencing is. But that's an issue separate from this bug report, which should stay open or be marked as forwarded. .....A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
