Re: manual pages for trivial bash scripts and for binaries without command-line arguments

[Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>]

Boris Pek <tehnick-8@yandex.ru> writes:
> But I am interested what is the best practise in case of trivial bash scripts
> (which usually set up necessary environment variables and launch binaries)?
>
> Also there is another question about scripts or programs which do not use
> command line arguments. (For example, they do not react to --help or --version
> arguments.) These can be GUI programs or simple scripts from question above.
> Are manual pages useful for them? What maintainers usually do in such
> cases?

Just add a minimal "--help" option to the program and then use help2man
in debian/rules.