Re: Bug#6287: deb-check 0.2 report on /var/pub/debian/bo/binary-i386/devel/gettext_0.10.26-0.deb
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On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> Package: gettext
> Version: 0.10.26-0
>
> bug: usr/bin/gettext without manpage
> bug: usr/bin/gettextize without manpage
> bug: usr/bin/msgcmp without manpage
> bug: usr/bin/msgfmt without manpage
> bug: usr/bin/msgmerge without manpage
> bug: usr/bin/msgunfmt without manpage
> bug: usr/bin/xgettext without manpage
Well... I knew this would also happen to me, sooner or later :-)
As almost everybody knows, GNU does not consider the lack of a manpage as
a bug. If I make symlinks, say, from msgmerge to undocumented.7, I would
not be saying the truth, because msgmerge is perfectly well documented (in
texinfo format, i.e. in the .info files).
When we are talking about standarizing documentation on HTML format,
I feel that requiring a manpage for every binary in /usr/bin is something
absurd.
If we insist on this policy, I would make the following proposal: Could we
create a new type of man page saying "Please see the .info files"?. It
could be named "seeinfo.7". If such man page would exist, I would gladly
add a symlink to it.
Opinions?
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Santiago Vila <sanvila@ctv.es>
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