On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 07:28:37PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > 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 I'm aware of this. However, the extent of my use of non-free is for firmware. > 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. I wrote the manpages to provide something useful for gcc because (a) it's buggy according to Policy, (b) upstream isn't clueful enough to relicense the documentation under a free license, and (c) the Debian distribution is lacking manual pages for arguably one of its most important packages. Plus, I might make use of them myself instead of trying to peruse the --help output every time. I'll look into packaging them separately, but I would like to point out that even if I do your package will remain buggy according to Policy. Do you have a preference on the name of the package? -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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