Re: writing man pages or texinfo documentation
Is there any way we can reconcile the differences between what Debian
requires and what GNU prefers? It seems like a lot of extra work to
provide separate documentation (even just dummy man pages) with the
similar information.
I'm not sure if this would satisfy the Debian requirement, or even how
feasible this would be, but maybe a the hurd man command could generate a
synopsis from the texinfo?
dean.
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> another excellent way to help our effort is to write man pages. Debian
> policy mandates that every binary comes with a manpage. We have none
> currently. The information you need has to be gathered together from the
> hurd.texi file, the executables, the sources, and existing man pages.
>
> I know that the GNU project doesn't like man pages. Improving the info file
> would of course also be a good way to help. We can than write a dummy man
> page that only goves a synopsis and then points to the info file.
>
> Here is a list:
>
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage MAKEDEV
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage addauth
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage boot
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage clri.ufs
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage devprobe
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage e2os
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage forks
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage fsck
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage fsck.ufs
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage fstests
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage fsysopts
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage ftpcp
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage ftpdir
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage halt
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage ids
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage login
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage loginpr
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage mkfs.ufs
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage mount
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage msgport
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage nfsd
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage ping
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage portinfo
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage ps
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage reboot
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage rmauth
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage setauth
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage settrans
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage shd
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage showtrans
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage stati.ufs
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage storecat
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage storeinfo
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage storeread
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage su
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage sush
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage swapoff
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage swapon
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage syncfs
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage timertest
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage unsu
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage uptime
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage vminfo
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage vmstat
> E: hurd: binary-without-manpage w
>
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