| Subject: | Debian binary-without-manpage lintian warning |
Bio-SamTools ships 2 binary files: bin/bamToGBrowse.pl and
bin/genomeCoverageBed.pl. We currently package Bio-SamTools in Debian.
In Debian, each binary package in /usr/bin should have a manual page to
accompany it. It would be greatly appreciated if such manual pages could
be shipped and updated upstream as part of the tarball.
I am including the full lintian warning below for reference:
W: libbio-samtools-perl: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/bamToGBrowse.pl
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.
N:
N: Severity: normal, Certainty: possible
N:
W: libbio-samtools-perl: binary-without-manpage
usr/bin/genomeCoverageBed.pl
Thanks,
Nathan Handler (nhandler)