Re: manpage for GNU utilities?
> What I would like to see considered for policy (because I'm lazy), is
> that for packages that only have info pages, in lieu of writing
> manpages (which may or may not actually happen), we have a manpage
> info-documented.1.gz that says more or less
>
> The documentation for package <foo> is available as info pages
> under the following headings:
>
> bar
> baz
>
> The maintainer for the package can then just copy this page, modify it
> to fit their package, and put in the relevant manpage symlinks for
> "foo, bar, and baz". Note that the Debian package name should always
> be one of the symlinks.
>
> Bad idea?
Bad idea.
Most users hate info documentation, that's a fact. And they would hate a
distribution with only-info docs.
Updating the manpages it's a cut&paste work, and `sort''s interface rarely
changes.
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