Bug#1737: missing man pages for accouting commands

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Dirk Eddelbuettel writes ("Bug#1737: missing man pages for accouting commands"):
>   Susan G Kleinmann writes:
>   Susan> The man page and the info page for 'acct' refer the reader to
>   Susan> acct(5) for additional information.  No such page exists.
>
> True, but that is a bug in the upstream version that I as the maintainer
> can't do anything about but writing the man page myself. And I don't have
> enough time to do so. Any volunteers?

Bugs in the upstream package count as bugs too.  I'm going to reopen
this report.

>   Susan> Likewise, there are no man pages for `ac', `accton', `lastcomm', and
>   Susan> `sa'.  Even though much of the relevant information is covered in
>   Susan> the texinfo document for `accounting', it would be helpful to have a
>   Susan> man page for each of these commands, even if it said something so
>   Susan> simple as "look in the texinfo document."
>
> Well, Debian is a GNU system. And in the GNU world is a preference for
> texinfo over manpages. Love it or loathe it --- and then do write some
> manpages. I close this bug now.

We do not have to adopt the (widely loathed) GNU policy of preferring
Texinfo to manpages.

Ian.