Re: policy summary (new packages without man pages)
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 01:11:44PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> It is not the job of the Debian maintainer to write the upstream
> package. The job of the Debian maintainer is to package the
> existing upstream package in a form convenient for Debian users in
> a way that is complementary to the rest of the system.
Indeed. Consider, though, that writing a small manpage that points
at existing documentation is not onerous. It is about as hard as
figuring out how to create a menu entry. I think it's part of the
packaging process.
If a package doesn't have *any* documentation, then there's not much
point in packaging it -- only people who have source code will be
able to use it.
Richard Braakman
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