Bug#348864: please check if man page is in right section

2006-03-10 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Collin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All that said, while I can think of valid examples where a program is in > bin with a man page in section 8, I can't think of any valid examples > where a program is in sbin with a man page in section 1. I think a check > for the latter would probably be r

Bug#348864: please check if man page is in right section

2006-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 02:28:48PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-19 15:08]: > > See #253011 for a bug requesting the opposite (i.e. disabling the > > check that we had for this). > > Perhaps Colin can comment whether the argument in #253011 is so

Bug#348864: please check if man page is in right section

2006-01-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-19 16:14]: > All that said, while I can think of valid examples where a program is in > bin with a man page in section 8, I can't think of any valid examples > where a program is in sbin with a man page in section 1. I think a check > for the latter would

Bug#348864: please check if man page is in right section

2006-01-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-19 15:08]: > See #253011 for a bug requesting the opposite (i.e. disabling the > check that we had for this). Perhaps Colin can comment whether the argument in #253011 is sound. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#348864: please check if man page is in right section

2006-01-19 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
See #253011 for a bug requesting the opposite (i.e. disabling the check that we had for this). On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 01:38:24PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > It would be nice if lintian would check whether the man page for a > program is in the right section, i.e. for stuff in /usr/bin and /b

Bug#348864: please check if man page is in right section

2006-01-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.14 Severity: wishlist It would be nice if lintian would check whether the man page for a program is in the right section, i.e. for stuff in /usr/bin and /bin it should be in section 1 and for /usr/sbin and /sbin in section 8. I had the following package and lintian d