Debian Bug report logs - #661808
lintian: non-obvious references to debconf specification

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Package: lintian; Maintainer for lintian is Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for lintian is src:lintian (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Jakub Wilk <[email protected]>

Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 13:09:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version lintian/2.5.5

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* Russ Allbery <[email protected]>, 2013-01-18, 11:28:
>>>>If there is no hyperlink, it's not immediately obvious that 
>>>>"Configuration management" is title of the document better known as 
>>>>the debconf specification.
[...]
>>Do you think the titles should be changed in debian-policy or should 
>>we have refresh-manual-refs ammend the names in these cases?
>We can change the titles; that's fairly easy to do.  What do you have 
>in mind?  Something like Configuration Management Specification 
>instead?  I'm not sure what would be clearest.

"Configuration Management Specification" sounds good to me.

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