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Re: gperiodic debian package complete except for man page
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 05:44:25AM -0700, jim@mercury.laney.edu wrote:
>
> You can download the debian package (and source) for gperiodic-1.0.5 from:
>
> http://www.debian.org/~jwl/
>
> Debian has a package/policy checker called lintian; the package is lintian-
> clean except for the man page. (note of clarification: policy requires one
> man page for each different program in the package.) If there are other docs
> or materials, I will find a way to get them included.
I am a little bit familiar with debian packaging too. You can put a pointer
to the generic man page which says "there is no man page, check
/usr/doc/package" or something like that. This way you conform to the policy
and avoid dealing with writing a man page right now.
Bruno