Hie Pierre,
Am Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 09:18:32PM +0200 schrieb Pierre Gruet:
This is interesting, thanks for sharing this information. Actually I cannot
say I am surprised.
Do you know if users read our manpages? I feel we can expect /some/ users
will type
man command
if something is not working as expected, but for sure not all of them will.
The users *I* interviewed are not aware that there are manpages and
despite I told them they probably forgot in the mean time. However,
I'm not sure whether I picked a representative set of users.
Have you sometimes used debconf to spread information?
Extremely rarely if I felt the system admin should know something. Not
to be read by users.
This (or debian/NEWS)
gives a chance to reach some end users at the cost of implementing the
debconf mechanism / writing a NEWS text. But if they skip the information
and do not know about the /usr/share/doc/packagename directory...
I'm using debian/NEWS from time to time if I feel the need but more to
do my "duty as Debian Developer" not because I hope the message is
received by those who should know.
I am interested in ideas or comments on this issue!
I'm interested as well.
Kind regards
Andreas.