Re: Bug#570980: man sbin man pages are in section 1 instead of section 8

2010-02-22 Thread Russ Allbery
gregor herrmann writes: > On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:54:54 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: >> Many executables in .../sbin have their man pages in section 1 instead >> of section 8. >> Perhaps a piuparts like script could comb over the apt-file search >> results to target them. > Sounds more like

Processed: Re: reportbug general bug filing recommendation (was Re: Bug#570980: man sbin man pages are in section 1 instead of section 8

2010-02-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > clone 570991 -1 Bug#570991: tuxtype: Package with doc/AUTHORS and doc/ChangeLog and doc/TODO Bug 570991 cloned as bug 570994. > reassign -1 lintian Bug #570994 [tuxtype] tuxtype: Package with doc/AUTHORS and doc/ChangeLog and doc/TODO Bug reassi

Re: Bug#570980: reportbug general bug filing recommendation (was Re: Bug#570980: man sbin man pages are in section 1 instead of section 8

2010-02-22 Thread Adam D. Barratt
# Cc to -devel for information after the reassign merge 570980 348864 thanks Holger Levsen wrote, Monday, February 22, 2010 5:19 PM clone 570991 -1 reassign -1 lintian retitle -1 "please add a check against commands in /sbin using section 1 manpages" fwiw, there *was* such a lintian check, wh

Bug#570980: reportbug general bug filing recommendation (was Re: Bug#570980: man sbin man pages are in section 1 instead of section 8

2010-02-22 Thread Holger Levsen
clone 570991 -1 reassign -1 lintian retitle -1 "please add a check against commands in /sbin using section 1 manpages" severity -1 wishlist block 570991 by 476403 block 570991 by 512447 block 570991 by 512449 block 570991 by 512450 block 570991 by 512451 block 570991 by 512452 block 570991 by 5709

Bug#570980: reportbug general bug filing recommendation (was Re: Bug#570980: man sbin man pages are in section 1 instead of section 8

2010-02-22 Thread jidanni
I tried to find all bugs with "section 8" in their title via http://bugs.debian.org An error occurred. Error was: You have to choose something to select by I'll try this to at least find (most of) mine: $ w3m -cols -dump http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?submitter=jida...@jidan

Bug#570980: reportbug general bug filing recommendation (was Re: Bug#570980: man sbin man pages are in section 1 instead of section 8

2010-02-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Sandro, please don't cc: me, I'm subscribed. On Montag, 22. Februar 2010, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > I'm tempted to close this bug or reassign to reportbug ;-) > Please don't. Neither? ;) > The one above is the description of 'general' we retrieve from > [1], that's the canonical place for defin

Bug#570980: reportbug general bug filing recommendation (was Re: Bug#570980: man sbin man pages are in section 1 instead of section 8

2010-02-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi jidanni, On Montag, 22. Februar 2010, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Then I got this great idea that instead of me just mentioning in to > packages that I've stumbled into, there could be a systematic combing of > all Debian. Can you point me to bugs about manpages in section 1 which belong in s

Bug#570980: reportbug general bug filing recommendation (was Re: Bug#570980: man sbin man pages are in section 1 instead of section 8

2010-02-22 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 17:07, Holger Levsen wrote: >> P.S., I am sure I filed this bug in the right place, as reportbug says >> "general General problems (e.g., that many manpages are mode 755)". > > I'm tempted to close this bug or reassign to reportbug ;-) Please don't. > IME bugs against > t

Bug#570980: reportbug general bug filing recommendation (was Re: Bug#570980: man sbin man pages are in section 1 instead of section 8

2010-02-22 Thread jidanni
HL> Do you intend to file individual bugs? I'd appreciate this. Actually I've filed many individual bugs, some even just today. Then I got this great idea that instead of me just mentioning in to packages that I've stumbled into, there could be a systematic combing of all Debian. -- To UNSUBS

Bug#570980: reportbug general bug filing recommendation (was Re: Bug#570980: man sbin man pages are in section 1 instead of section 8

2010-02-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi jidanni, On Montag, 22. Februar 2010, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Many executables in .../sbin have their man pages in section 1 instead > of section 8. This is indeed a policy violation as it's covered by policy indirectly via FHS: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREMANMA