Re: Manual pages?
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 12:43:10PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 December 2007, Colin Watson wrote:
> > "Gekz" asked on IRC today for manual pages for commands like in-target.
>
> Hmm. How about promoting the doc I started for Debconf two years back [1] to
> a real developers reference (i.e. moving it to installer/doc/devel and
> building it for the d-i deb; basically this is what I always intended for
> that doc)
That'd be good. Is the .tex version active, or should it be removed?
> and including such info in an appendix there in a chapter per command?
> Or maybe have a separate d-i-devel-doc package with the manpages (a bit like
> man debconf-devel)?
I do think manual pages are more appropriate for this task (then again,
I would), but it does make sense to put them in installer/doc/ somewhere
so that they can be built into a .deb. They could just go in
debian-installer.deb, since that consists entirely of documentation
anyway.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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