no-manual-page
Each binary in /usr/bin
, /usr/sbin
, /bin
,
/sbin
or /usr/games
should have a manual page
Note that though the man
program has the capability to check for
several program names in the NAMES section, each of these programs
should have its own manual page (a symbolic link to the appropriate
manual page is sufficient) because other manual page viewers such as
xman or tkman don't support this.
If the name of the manual page differs from the binary by case, man
may be able to find it anyway; however, it is still best practice to match
the exact capitalization of the executable in the manual page.
If the manual pages are provided by another package on which this package depends, Lintian may not be able to determine that manual pages are available. In this case, after confirming that all binaries do have manual pages after this package and its dependencies are installed, please add a Lintian override.
For more information please consult:
- Debian Policy Manual section 12.1
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
2.108.0
release tag in our Git
repository.
You can find the detection logic for this version at commit a1e47cb. For merge requests, please use the latest version in the Lintian check documentation/manual.
Visibility: warning
- binary-without-manpage