missing manpages for binaries

Bug #1677721 reported by Stephen M. Webb
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity System Compositor
Fix Committed
Low
Stephen M. Webb
unity-system-compositor (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

None of the binaries installed by the unity-system-compositor have manual pages.

An excerpt from Lintian analysis of the Deb package follows.

W: unity-system-compositor: binary-without-manpage usr/sbin/unity-system-compositor
W: unity-system-compositor: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/unity-system-compositor-spinner
W: unity-system-compositor: binary-without-manpage usr/sbin/unity-system-compositor.sleep
N:
N: Each binary in /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /bin, /sbin or /usr/games should
N: have a manual page
N:
N: Note that though the man program has the capability to check for several
N: program names in the NAMES section, each of these programs should have
N: its own manual page (a symbolic link to the appropriate manual page is
N: sufficient) because other manual page viewers such as xman or tkman
N: don't support this.
N:
N: If the name of the man page differs from the binary by case, man may be
N: able to find it anyway; however, it is still best practice to make the
N: case of the man page match the case of the binary.
N:
N: If the man pages are provided by another package on which this package
N: depends, lintian may not be able to determine that man pages are
N: available. In this case, after confirming that all binaries do have man
N: pages after this package and its dependencies are installed, please add
N: a lintian override.
N:
N: Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 12.1 (Manual pages) for details.

Related branches

Stephen M. Webb (bregma)
Changed in unity-system-compositor:
assignee: nobody → Stephen M. Webb (bregma)
milestone: none → 0.9.2
Stephen M. Webb (bregma)
Changed in unity-system-compositor:
status: Triaged → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Mir CI Bot (mir-ci-bot) wrote :

Fix committed into lp:unity-system-compositor at revision 312, scheduled for release in unity-system-compositor, milestone Unknown

Changed in unity-system-compositor:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in unity-system-compositor (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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