On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 02:15:15PM +0200, Boris Pek wrote: > Debian Policy (section 12.1) tell us that each program in /usr/bin should has > a manual page. And there is the related warning in Lintian. > > But I am interested what is the best practise in case of trivial bash scripts > (which usually set up necessary environment variables and launch binaries)? > > Also there is another question about scripts or programs which do not use > command line arguments. (For example, they do not react to --help or --version > arguments.) These can be GUI programs or simple scripts from question above. > Are manual pages useful for them? What maintainers usually do in such cases? I kinda like the position recently mentioned on #-devel: "you need a manpage for that? really? You know what? WRITE IT. Upstream accepts patches." Of course YMMV if you need sponsors to upload your packages. -- WBR, wRAR
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