Re: Should we standardize a way to create and maintain manpages?

[Andrius Merkys <merkys@debian.org>]

Hi Andreas,

On 2020-12-21 18:49, Andreas Tille wrote:
> I really like this idea.  The problem why I stopped using plain help2man
> is that in most cases the result is not a proper manpage.  So I frequently
> used a createmanpages while beeing perfectly aware that upstream changes
> could make these (partially) wrong.  I'd love to have a better solution -
> but the lintian check would be extremely helpful.

Thank you for your opinion. I will proceed with submitting a request for
the lintian check (with the help from Nilesh). I think such lintian
check would be of value independently of whichever way to create and
maintain manpages is chosen for standardization.

Best,
Andrius