On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 08:13:32AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Just to add one more opinion, I always write new man pages in POD and make
> Perl do the hard work of converting them to *roff for me. (Of course, I'm
> biased since I maintain Pod::Man.)
I also tend to like the POD syntax for writing manpages.
> It means a build dependency on Perl, but the POD syntax is very simple
> and quick to learn.
Not necessarily, you can store in the package the already built version
of the manpage and document in debian/README.Debian-source what is
needed to re-generate the manpage.
Cheers.
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