Package: qa.debian.org
Greetings,
In brief, I don't think http://qa.debian.org/man-pages.html ,
which is a listing of missing man pages is acurately reflecting the
lintian report at:
http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tbinary-without-manpage.html
Furthermore, the qa.d.o page seems to be becoming less and less
accurate with time. Details follow.
A quick comparison of the qa.d.o page and the lintian.d.o page
reveal that the qa.d.o page does not contain any listings for packages
starting with the letters a-f, and not even all the packages g-z (for
example gnupg).
Yesterday, unawares of this situation, I wrote a quick shell
script to display for me the packages that I had installed that were
missing man pages. It used the data from the qa.d.o page. I setup a cron
job to email this to me, these packages were returned from an email
dated August 8 @1618 (GMT -0500):
lynx
mpg
modutils
mutt
net-tools
oaf
openssl
passwd
perl
perl-base
ppp
psutils
qte-dev-tools
scrollkeeper
tar
tetex-bin
util-linux
xbase-clients
xfree86-common
xserver-common
xserver-xfree86
xutils
zsh
xbase-clients
=============
25 packages
The email I received today contained only the following:
openssl
passwd
perl
perl-base
psutils
qt3-dev-tools
scrollkeeper
tar
tetex-bin
util-linux
xbase-clients
xfree86-common
xserver-common
xserver-xfree86
xutils
zsh
===
17 packages
This leads me to believe that there is a continuing divergence of the
lintian.d.o and the qa.d.o page.
Without the script that actually generates that page from lintian data
I'm pretty much stalled in what I can find out. I googled
site:debian.org in an attempt to locate it to no avail. If someone would
like to send me a publically-accessable link or just a copy of that
script I can see what I can divine from it, and possibly return a
patch. If I am successful, I would be happy to work towards
resolving bug #259521 ("http://qa.debian.org/man-pages.html possibly
outdated") as well.
Thank you,
-Dave
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