Bug#654931: gcc-4.6: missing manpage
On 01/07/2012 05:36 PM, brian m. carlson wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 07:53:25AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
>> won't fix in the gcc-4.6 package; clearly these "skeletal" pages are
>> not part of the upstream sources. please package those as a separate
>> package if you intend to maintain these on a regular basis.
>
> Lots of Debian packages include manpages that are not part of the
> upstream source, and Policy mandates a manpage *in the same package*.
> I'd like you to reconsider, especially since having some manpage, even
> if it isn't complete, is a lot better for users than having no manpage
> at all.
we have the original man pages in non-free (at least we had these packaged for
earlier versions [1]; feel free to package these, I assume Nikita would welcome
the help). These are far better than anything written from scratch. If you
include the mediocre manpages into the gcc packages, then you have to divert
each manpage in the non-free man-page packages to replace the incomplete man
pages. The better solution is to recommend or depend on the gnu-manpage |
rewritten-manpage packages.
Matthias
[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gcc-4.3-doc-non-dfsg.html
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