Re: undocumented.7 being abused

2001-01-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > (Good thing I just happened to have a package that uses undocumented.7 > lying around, eh? :-) > > Anyway, except for the additional info on the new tag, it's a one-line > patch, so it should be pretty easy to add. > please see the BTS, Colin submitted a full patch plus testset. (Which is h

Re: undocumented.7 being abused

2001-01-23 Thread Chris Waters
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:04:49PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > a quick look at lintian bugs shows nothing. Please submit a bug on > lintian and this will make it into my queue. > Yes, a patch on the bug will make it get in quicker (-: You're in luck, I have a patch that seems to be work

Re: undocumented.7 being abused

2001-01-22 Thread Colin Watson
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The previous lintian maintainer was considering the idea of making the >> use of undocumented(7) a warning. (Which seems appropriate, since you >> do have to have a bug report on file, which means that it's something >> you *should* fix.) With t

Re: undocumented.7 being abused

2001-01-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> >> Since lintian reports the absence of a manpage as an error, maintainers >> (specially new maintainer) proceed to install a link pointing to >> undocumented.7 instead of actually providing a manpage. > > The previous lintian maintainer was considering the idea of making the > use of undo

Re: undocumented.7 being abused

2001-01-20 Thread Chris Waters
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 07:37:10PM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > All the manpages are symlinks to undocumented.7. Looking at the bug > reports for gnome-panel, this hasn't been reported as a bug, so this is > a violation of policy. Of course, reporting this as a violation of > policy i

Re: undocumented.7 being abused

2001-01-20 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> Since lintian reports the absence of a manpage as an error, maintainers > (specially new maintainer) proceed to install a link pointing to > undocumented.7 instead of actually providing a manpage. Before > proposing to get rid of this, I'd like to hear opinions as to why we > should allow t

undocumented.7 being abused

2001-01-20 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, while trying to reproduce a bug against Window Maker, I had to install gnome-panel. If one looks at the packages contents, one gets: /. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/gnome-panel /usr/share/doc/gnome-panel/copyright /usr/share/doc/gnome-panel/changelog.gz /usr/share/