Am Mittwoch, den 06.05.2009, 04:47 +0200 schrieb Kevin Kofler: > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > Debian has a policy that all the commands should have man pages as part > > of their review process. Unfortunately they don't seem to be sending it > > upstream. If you are a package maintainer for some application, that is > > missing a man page, it might be a good to look into the Debian sources > > for man page patches, add them to your package and send it upstream as > > well. Note that upstream might require you to clean up the man page in > > the process. > > Well, there are many upstreams rejecting Debian's patches outright, saying > manpages are obsolete and redundant with any of: > * info documentation (those are mostly the GNU projects), /me still secretly hopes info pages go away. > * HTML/docbook/GUI documentation (that has long been KDE's position, but > recently they have started merging manpages from Debian), > * plaintext documentation or > * --help or other usage output. > > Kevin Kofler > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
