Re: cvs commit to glibc-package/debian/packages.d by gotom
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 08:50:56AM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 12:08:17AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
>
> > Upstream supports info, not manpages, because GNU Project pushes info.
> > So, I guess they don't hope the form of manpages. However, asking
> > upstream about this issue is interested for me because we can know
> > their stance about their document translation.
>
> Last month I asked the texinfo folks upstream if they supported markup
> to turn info pages into proper man pages (with synopsis, etc). They
> don't yet, but I'm going to persue it a little bit more. Ideally we'll
> find something that we can use to generate the man pages directly from
> the info files.
You can do it already, with a little bit of massaging. Look in the GCC
CVS for texi2pod.pl, and then use pod2man.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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