Re: manpage for GNU utilities?

["Adam P. Harris" <apharris@onshore.com>]

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>[Rob 
Browning]
>> 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 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.
>
> 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.

I don't think we should require package maintainers to copy info files 
into man pages.  We might hope or suggest for this to happen.  I think 
Ron's alternative is acceptable, too.  Either/or.  I would hate to require
either one.

.....A. P. Harris...apharris@onShore.com...<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>