Re: Bug#39830: [PROPOSED]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks
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- Subject: Re: Bug#39830: [PROPOSED]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks
- From: Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org>
- Date: 04 Jul 1999 12:23:23 +1000
- Message-id: <[🔎] 87oght6tlw.fsf@faure.nls.net.au>
- In-reply-to: Manoj Srivastava's message of "23 Jun 1999 01:57:45 -0500"
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
> Roland> My intension was to get rid of these undocumented.7 symlinks, because
> Roland> they are quite useless because of the following points:
>
> Roland> a) dpkg -L <package> shows that there is a man page, but there is only
> Roland> this useless symlink.
>
> On the other hand, if there is a binary, and one does a man
> binary, some people prefer to see something. This, I am afraid, is
> merely a matter of preference.
I agree, particularly users from non-Debian systems are much more likely
to find documentation via man and not dpkg -L.
The undocumented manpage already points people to other possible locations
such as /usr/doc.
So, I object to Roland's proposal and do not think policy should be changed,
except to remove the bogus bug reports for these manpages.
Martin.
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