[debhelper-devel] Bug#865708: dh_installwm: the man page does not match to the code

[Robert Luberda]

Package: debhelper
Version: 10.2.5
Severity: minor

dh_installwm(1) says that the slave man page is optional:
   The window manager's man page is also  registered as a slave symlink (in v6 mode 
   and up), if it is found in usr/share/man/man1/ in the package  build directory.
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

However dh_installwm's code does not entirely agree with that:

  if (! compat(9)) {
    error("no manpage found (creating an x-window-manager alternative requires a slave symlink for the manpage)");
                                                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  }

Regards,
robert
 
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  autotools-dev            20161112.1
ii  binutils                 2.28-6
ii  dh-autoreconf            14
ii  dh-strip-nondeterminism  0.035-2
ii  dpkg                     1.18.24
ii  dpkg-dev                 1.18.24
ii  file                     1:5.30-1
ii  libdpkg-perl             1.18.24
ii  man-db                   2.7.6.1-2
ii  perl                     5.24.1-4
ii  po-debconf               1.0.20

debhelper recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
pn  dh-make  <none>

-- no debconf information