[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1143830: probcons: Extra PDF manual promised in manpage, but not shipped

Stepan dabonatan at proton.me
Thu Aug 6 20:30:14 BST 2026


Package: probcons
Version: 1.12-15
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: dabonatan at proton.me

Dear Maintainer,

probcons(1) says the following:

	 You can find more information in the manual of ProbCons, which
	 is  located in /usr/share/doc/probcons/manual.pdf in Debian
	 systems.

But no such file is shipped with the package.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 7.1.3+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages probcons depends on:
ii  libc6       2.42-17
ii  libgcc-s1   16.1.0-3
ii  libstdc++6  16.1.0-3

probcons recommends no packages.

Versions of packages probcons suggests:
ii  probcons-extra  1.12-15

-- no debconf information



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