Re: over 30000 bugs in our archive (!)

[dark@xs4all.nl (Richard Braakman)]

David Welton wrote:
>  E: epic: binary-without-manpage ircflush.epic
>  E: epic: binary-without-manpage ircserv.epic
>  E: epic: binary-without-manpage ircserv.epic
> 
>  These just don't have man pages..  Is there some way to include taht
> in the packaging information so that the various scripts will overlook
> it?

Hmm... According to Debian policy the lack of a manpage is a bug,
but obviously it's not the kind of bug that should delay a package
upload.

I see three ways to deal with this:
  - Report a bug to epic and forward it upstream, then make symlinks
    to the undocumented(7) page.
  - Move the binaries to a lib directory (the filenames suggest that
    they are not intended to be invoked by the user directly).
  - Ignore these messages, and when there is a global lintian-override
    file, ask for an entry in it.

Actually there are other options "write the manpages" and "ignore the
whole thing" :-)

>  E: epic: md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file DEBIAN/md5sums
>  E: epic: md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file DEBIAN/postinst
>  E: epic: md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file DEBIAN/postinst
> 
> How does one get this?  I'm using rules files generated with debmake,
> so everything ought to be pretty standard... no?

This was caused by a bug in a specific version of debmake.  Recompiling
with the current version will fix it.

Richard Braakman


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