[Pkg-giraffe-discuss] Missing manpages

[Guido Günther]

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 05:49:17PM +0200, Mark Dufour wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> > > Compared to last Saturday lintian is already quiet happy now. We need to
> > > rework the lib and python packaging anyway and once done most of this
> > > should be covered.
> 
> great to hear, and thanks to all involved. sorry it took a while to get my feet back on the ground after my vacation. I hope to start contributing again from now on, and will post a general update shortly. 
> 
> about the following lintian errors:
>  
> > >  W: zarafa-dagent: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/zarafa-mr-accept    
> 
> this is not really a binary that a user would start manually. it can be configured in dagent.cfg to deal with meeting requests. would it be a problem to leave this as-is for now..?

Shouldn't we then move it out of /usr/bin then? Lintian's complaint will
then go away too.

> 
> > >  W: zarafa-server: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man5/zarafa-ldap.cfg.5.gz 964: warning [p 11, 5.5i]: can't break line    
> > 
> > Spotted the error here:
> > Optional for OpenLDAP installations: \
> > fI(|(mail=%s*)(uid=%s*)(cn=*%s*)(fullname=*%s*)(givenname=*%s*)(lastname=*%s*)(sn=*%s*))\fR
> > 
> > I'm not an expert on man pages, but adding a space in the LDAP query resolves it but makes the query harder to copy/paste. So I am not certain what the correct solution is.
> 
> adding an 'invisible space', ​ into the respective line in doc/manual.xml seems to solve the problem. no more error, copy-pastability.
> 
> > >  W: zarafa-search-plus: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/zarafa-search
> 
> I updated the search and search cfg manpages for the new search just
> now and added them to our packages. thanks for spotting this problem!

Great. Thanks for adding that!
 -- Guido