On 27.11.2008 10:32, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 08:28:55PM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
Far too often I find myself looking for non-existent man pages, Google
results, or help menus in GNU/Linux software. What's the problem? There
is no single, reliable, standardized documentation system that is
universally accepted or appreciated. Yes, what I'm about to describe
should obsolete man, info, and all the other dozen "help" documentation
found in all the Fedora packages.
Debian forces all programs to come with a man page. If one is
missing, this is considered a bug and packagers have to write one.
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html
This would be an excellent idea for Fedora to follow (and we can,
license permitting, use the Debian man pages).
My 2 cent: It would be way better for everyone to get those man pages
upstream.
One reason for that: If you add man pages from debian to a fedora
package then you have to recheck every now and then if the man pages are
still up2date. That afaics often tends to be forgotten (I'm guilty
myself here).
CU
knurd
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