Greetings,

	In brief, I don't think http://qa.debian.org/man-pages.html ,
which is a listing of missing man pages is acurately reflecting the
lintian report at:
http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tbinary-without-manpage.html

Furthermore, the qa.d.o page seems to be becoming less and less
accurate with time. Details follow.

        A quick comparison of the qa.d.o page and the lintian.d.o page
reveal that the qa.d.o page does not contain any listings for packages
starting with the letters a-f, and not even all the packages g-z (for
example gnupg).

        Yesterday, unawares of this situation, I wrote a quick shell
script to display for me the packages that I had installed that were
missing man pages. It used the data from the qa.d.o page. I setup a cron
job to email this to me, these packages were returned from an email
dated August 8 @1618 (GMT -0500):

lynx
mpg
modutils
mutt
net-tools
oaf
openssl
passwd
perl
perl-base
ppp
psutils
qte-dev-tools
scrollkeeper
tar
tetex-bin
util-linux
xbase-clients
xfree86-common
xserver-common
xserver-xfree86
xutils
zsh
xbase-clients
=============
25 packages

The email I received today contained only the following:

openssl
passwd
perl
perl-base
psutils
qt3-dev-tools
scrollkeeper
tar
tetex-bin
util-linux
xbase-clients
xfree86-common
xserver-common
xserver-xfree86
xutils
zsh
===
17 packages

This leads me to believe that there is a continuing divergence of the
lintian.d.o and the qa.d.o page.

Without the script that actually generates that page from lintian data
I'm pretty much stalled in what I can find out.  I googled
site:debian.org in an attempt to locate it to no avail.  If someone would
like to send me a publically-accessable link or just a copy of that
script I can see what I can divine from it, and possibly return a
patch. If I am successful, I would be happy to work towards
resolving bug #259521 ("http://qa.debian.org/man-pages.html possibly
outdated") as well.

Thank you,

Igor,

	I don't think bugs #259521 & #264719 are the same bug.  Bug
#259251 is in regards to a outdated design, not a malfunction.  Bug
#264719 is in regards to the malfunction of the script that generates
that page from the daily linitian report.

	To resolve bug #259521 the page would need to be overhauled so
that it's context reflects the qa teams current considerations.  To
resolve bug #264719 the script that generates the page needs to be
examined to determine the reason it is not functioning properly.

	Since resolving one problem has no effect on the other problem I
feel that the bugs should be unmerged so that closing one bug report
doesn't accidentally close the other.

	If you agree, could you please unmerge the two bugs?

Thanks,

What does the man-pages.html page do what the lintian page doesn't,
except providing some extra instructions? If the lintian report seems
the (most) correct source and the man-pages.html page is not accurate,
why not take the lintian report as the place to look for packages to
write a man page for?


Thijs

Re: Dave Harding 2004-08-10 <20040810060827.GA20058@callisto>

I just did some number crunching:

grep binary-without-manpage lintian.log | wc
   3385   13540  167766
grep binary-without-manpage Tbinary-without-manpage.html | wc
   2631    5262   90884

The latter has some "reported N more times" lines, amounting to 590
more reports.

This means the numbers are still slightly off. The bug is probably in
in the lintian->qa interface in the generation of the lintian.log
file (at http://lintian.debian.org/lintian.log).

Christoph

Dear Customer,

This is to confirm that your item has been shipped at January 25.

Please check the attachment for details!

Your help is greatly appreciated,
Ronnie Crosby,
USPS Delivery Clerk.

Hallo,

Ich habe dir eine Mail geschickt, aber keine Antwort von dir, warum?

Eddie

This may be a new bug, but it looks like this page is not working at all
anymore because at the bottom of the page it now says "No data
available"

https://qa.debian.org/man-pages.html

pages are generated. I looked through the makefiles in this repo and
read all the READMEs that I could find, but I don't see how the site is
built documented anywhere. Could anyone point me in the right direction?

https://salsa.debian.org/qa/qa/-/blob/master/wml/man-pages.wml?ref_type=heads#L66

I suspect the issue is that this script is looking for some data from
lintian.log but this file no longer exists in the /data directory.

my $lintianlog = "/srv/qa.debian.org/data/lintian.log";

The closest thing I could find is this:
https://qa.debian.org/data/lintian-list.txt, perhaps this file was
renamed at some point.

I'd love to send a patch but I have no idea how to test this out
locally.