Re: policy summary
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 06:14:16PM +0000, M.C. Vernon wrote:
> > Get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks (#39830)
> > * Stalled.
> > * Proposed on 20 Jun 1999 by Roland Rosenfeld; seconded by Chris
> > Waters, Chris Lawrence and Raul Miller.
> > * All programs are still required to provide manpages, but
> > undocumented.7 is done away with by this proposal.
>
> I object to this; it provides useful information (i.e. there isn't a
> manpage for this, but we know about it), at little cost in terms of
> time&disk space.
Hmm, I guess it's re-hashing time :) The point of this proposal was
that the presence of an "undocumented" manpage *doesn't* provide
that information, it only pretends to. There is little correlation
between "undocumented" links and "missing manpage" bugreports.
Richard Braakman
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