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Re: "Author" section of manpages



On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 07:58:46PM +0000, Nick Phillips wrote:

> I would suggest that someone propose an amendment to policy to clarify how
> this section should be used - i.e. that only persons deserving of credit
> for the software itself should be listed without further qualification.

While I agree that the author section of a manual page should credit the
author of whatever is being document I really don't think this needs to
be in policy.  File bugs against the relevant packages.

-- 
"You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."

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