On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 07:58:46PM +0000, Nick Phillips wrote: > I've always been under the impression that in the absence of any explicit > indication to the contrary, those mentioned in this section should be the > authors of the program or package in question rather than the authors of > the manpage. I entirely agree. > There seem to be quite a few cases of packages in Debian where this section > is used in such a way that the (mistaken) impression that the persons listed > deserve credit for the software in question rather than "just" the manpage. Anybody who does this deserves to have his ass beat. Please file angry, demeaning bugs as appropriate. -- G. Branden Robinson | The software said it required Debian GNU/Linux | Windows 3.1 or better, so I branden@debian.org | installed Linux. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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