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Bug#850171: Recommend that manpages contain an EXAMPLES section



Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> writes:

> What I mean is: if there is really enough people wanting this change by
> all means do it, but 1. make the wording clear that is really optional
> (in this view, I see "recommended" as too strong a word) and 2. I really
> hope lintian won't start bothering for this.

Maybe https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide would be a better place for
this?  Currently, it doesn't even explicitly recommend that upstream
provide man pages.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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