On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 09:32:26AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > 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 I don't think that making a man page should be a guideline in fedora. If th efedora contributor wants to work a man page with upstream, fine, but it should be optional. > This would be an excellent idea for Fedora to follow (and we can, > license permitting, use the Debian man pages). If there is a good debian man page and nothing upstream, I think it is best practice for a packager to use the debian man page. But I don't think that it needs a guideline, it is fairly obvious that it is right. Maybe you could add something on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Packaging_Tricks stating that it is good to work a man page with upstream like debian does and reusing debian manpage is also worth it. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
