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# `useless-whatis-entry`

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.

Severity: | `warning`
Experimental: | `false`
Renamed from: | `manpage-has-useless-whatis-entry`

## See also

- list of all the affected packages
- the source of this tag