Lamont Peterson escribió:
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On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:44:16 +0300
Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Martin Marques wrote:
The thing is that the discussion started flipping towards why, if
there is a binary symlink, there isn't a man page symlink? This
could, in the case of cdrecord and wodim, or mkisofs and genisofs,
end in bugtrack tickets for those packages, but I am more
interested in a general solution, for all packages that have binary
symlinks.
So, shouldn't there be something in respect of this issue in the
packaging policy?
I support that (or the more or less AFAIK equivalent 'echo ".so
man1/wodim.1"
cdrecord.1' approach as an alternative to symlinks). Could you
write a
draft for that? I can take it onwards from there in the packaging
committee.
I would suggest creating a cdrecord(1) man page that says "This is no more. See wodim(1), which replaces it." Put that cdrecord(1) man page into the wodim package. This way, we teach people that there's been a change and we don't get "Um, when I type 'man cdrecord' I get a man page for something totally different; what gives?" kinds of questions/bug reports/requests.
If they read the man they would note that:
NOTE
There may be similarities and differences between this program and
other disk recording application(s). See the CREDITS and AUTHORS sec-
tions below to learn about the origin of wodim.
And later that:
This application is a spinoff from the original program "cdrecord"
delivered in the cdrtools package [1] created by Joerg Schilling, who
deserves the most credits for its success. However, he is not involved
into the development of this spinoff and therefore he shall not be made
responsible for any problem caused by it. Do not refer to this applica-
tion as "cdrecord", do not try to get support for wodim by contacting
the original authors.
So, better would be to teach users to read the manual.
This is obviously IMHO.
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