Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

To: Eduardo Trapani <etrapani@unesco.org.uy>
Cc: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)
From: Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 14:56:58 -0400
Message-id: <20010510185658.7647F4727@mixing.qc.dfo.ca>
In-reply-to: (Your message of Thu, 10 May 2001 15:52:30 -0300.) <3AFAE36E.DE46C49A@unesco.org.uy>

Eduardo Trapani wrote:

> The software I am packaging does not have a man page.
> 
> What programs should I use to create one?

I usually just edit one directly (in roff).

I'm pretty sure dh_make installs a sample.  If it doesn't, look
at /usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/debian/manpage.1.ex

There's also /usr/share/doc/man-db/examples/manpage.example

Peter

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