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Re: Removing the manpage requirement for GUI programs?



On 2010-02-27, Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> wrote:
> currently policy =C2=A712.1 mandates that =E2=80=9Ceach program, utility, a=
> nd
> function should have an associated manual page=E2=80=9D. However, the more =
> I
> stomp on bug reports about manual pages, the less I am convinced of
> their usefulness for GUI programs.

> Any comments before I submit a bug against the policy?

This is effectively what we are doing in kde land. sometimes, a user
reports a bug with missing manpage, and we just asks the user to provide
one.

/Sune


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