Hey Ivana, So the FPC met yesterday and voted against the Man Pages Draft as a Packaging Guideline. The basic reasoning is that the justification for voting against the previous man pagesdraft: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MAN_pages_which_exists_in_other_places(draft) was applicable here as well. In particular, this was the conclusion of discussion of that other draft: "This draft conflicts with the general practice that Fedora packagers should be working to send improvements directly to upstream. Anyone who feels motivated to dig in other distributions for patches or improvements should feel free to do so, but it is not something that the FPC felt should be codified into the guidelines. " The FPC did offer a few thoughts on what could be done with this, though: * If FESCo wanted to make a policy that we should be striving to have some sort of coverage goal for man pages, then we'd definitely include packaging guidelines so that reviewers and packagers would know that making man pages is required. This could be a FESCo policy like "Fedora wants to have 100% coverage of binaries in /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, and /usr/sbin" * I'm going to be working on ways that we can restructure the Packaging Guidelines to be better organized this weekend (as part of FUDCon). One aspect of that is figuring out how to make FESCo policies, non-guideline hints for packaging, and other things that are optional or just non-Guideline material better integrated so that packagers and reviewers can both know what's necessary for a Fedora Package and what things they can do to make their package really shine. Finding a place for things like this draft there could be good. + As part of that, we do currently have a page that lists tricks and tips for making better packages that go above and beyond the Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging_tricks That wiki page is open for anyone to write to so you should be able to add your man page stuff there (or link from it) for the time being. -Toshio
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