Bug#39830: [AMENDMENT]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 02:26:54PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:57:25AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > I completely agree that the undocumented(7) page is useful to new users.
> > That's why I suggest that it should remain on the system, and that man
> > should provide a much more lightweight pointer to it when no manual page
> > is found. My development version of man currently says:
> >
> > $ src/man wibble
> > No manual entry for wibble
> > See 'man 7 undocumented' for help with undocumented features.
>
> Perhaps "undocumented features" is not the best of phrases, someone might
> think it's for exploits and such :)
:-) Suggestions for better wording appreciated. Maybe just "for help
when manual pages are not available"?
(I'd like to make sure that it's of the form "See '%s' for ..." or
something similar, where "man 7 undocumented" gets substituted for %s.
This means that I can include the message upstream in a
non-Debian-specific way and have it properly translated, which is one
way to get an easy win over the current arrangement.)
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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