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Bug#264589: www.debian.org: Online manpages, preferably linked by package?



On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 10:42:44PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 07:14:54AM +0200, Pierre Machard wrote:
> > Unfortunately, I belive that this bug cannt be fixed trivialy. I think I
> > will a a tag wontfix for now. Until someone provide a manner to
> > implement it.
> 
> Please don't do this.  We will fix this, just not yet.

I agree, this is definitely something we need to implement since it has
been a longstanding issue. Many other distributions/OS provide online
manpages and those are a valuable thing, it should be possible to automate
extraction of manpages from binary packages, drop them in a per-package
hierarchy (to avoid conflicts) and generate browseable index (and
searchable index) for them.  It's just a matter of dedicating some time to 
write the appropiate code, write it, and run it over a mirror copy with the 
output available in, for example, www.debian.org/doc/manpages/

Regards

Javier

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