Re: Recommendations for man pages in Debian
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:
>
> > I guess the question then becomes: since Policy describes supposed best
> > practice for Debian, *should* we be more specific about the format of a
> > man page? I think the conventions described in ‘man-pages(7)’ are a good
> > basis for recommendations for all Debian man pages.
>
> Given our limited success in getting people to provide man pages for every
> binary to start with, I'm reluctant to ask package maintainers to patch
> upstream man pages to do relatively inconsequential things like add dates
> to the .TH line. I suspect most readers of the man page don't care.
I agree. While Ben's suggestion sounds nice in theory, it's bound to be
a recommendation that will not be acted upon because we have many more
interesting challenges to tackle.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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