Re: policy summary (new packages without man pages)
On 17-Jan-00, 15:42 (CST), Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Indeed. Consider, though, that writing a small manpage that points
> at existing documentation is not onerous.
Which is why I said that such a man page should be encouraged :-). In
fact, given a decent template (many of which exist), it would be easier
to write the manpage and send it to the maintainer than submit the bug
report.
> 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.
But a lot of packages have one or more "main" binaries that do have man
pages, and a few auxiliary binaries that don't. Or have decent output
from 'foo --help'. (Consider the state of dpkg's manpage for a long
time, until some kind souls got ambitious and contributed one.)
Steve
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