Bug 637708

Summary:	RFE: rpmlint should check if every binary or script has man page
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Miroslav Suchý <msuchy>
Component:	rpmlint	Assignee:	Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Miroslav Suchý 2010-09-27 07:59:15 UTC

Description of problem:
A lot of packages provides executable without man page. Rpmlint should check for every file which is going to be installed in /usr/bin/ /usr/sbin/ /bin and /sbin that equivalent file exist in mandir. Warning should be sufficient.

Comment 1 Ville Skyttä 2010-09-27 15:46:59 UTC

It already does, and in addition to those dirs, executables in /usr/games are checked as well.  For example:

$ rpm -q rpmlint
rpmlint-0.98-1.fc13.noarch
$ rpmlint rpmlint | grep no-manual-page
rpmlint.noarch: W: no-manual-page-for-binary rpmdiff

If you have a reproducer where that fails, please provide the details and feel free to reopen this bug.

Comment 2 Miroslav Suchý 2010-09-27 16:47:14 UTC

Ah sorry, I was using rpmlint-0.94. I thought is was recent enough. Mea culpa.