Lintian tag: useless-whatis-entry

Type: warning

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

The whatis entry for this manual page (the brief description found in the
NAME section) is of the form:

program - manual page for program

This conveys no information about what the program is for and is
repetitive. The short description should contain brief information about
what the program is for to aid in searching with apropos and similar
programs.

If this manual page was generated by help2man, use the -n option to
provide a more meaningful description.

Visibility: warning
Show-Always: no
Check: documentation/manual
Renamed from: manpage-has-useless-whatis-entry

Affected packages