manual-page-for-system-command
The command in /sbin
or /usr/sbin
are system
administration commands; their manual pages thus belong in section 8,
not section 1.
Please check whether the command is actually useful to non-privileged
user in which case it should be moved to /bin
or
/usr/bin
, or alternatively the manual page should be moved to
section 8 instead, ie. /usr/share/man/man8
.
For more information please consult:
- Bug#348864
- Bug#253011
- the hier(7) manual page
The tag is present in Lintian version 2.114.163
.
That is the most recent version we know about.
We use semantic versions.
The patch number is a commit step indicator relative to the
2.114.0
release tag in our Git
repository.
You can find the detection logic for this version at commit fd97859. For merge requests, please use the latest version in the Lintian check documentation/manual.
Visibility: pedantic
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