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Bug#1094145: debian-policy: Remove or significantly minimize manual page requirement



Hello,

On Sun 26 Jan 2025 at 04:56pm +01, Bill Allombert wrote:

> I will go as far as saying that of all package documentation we provide,
> man pages are the most useful, because you can just do 'man somecommand'
> and get something even if you have no idea what somecommand is supposed to
> do.
>
> On the other hand, we spend lot of time packaging doc in HTML or PDF format
> that users never use. Instead they do random internet search and then complain
> that the documentation they found on some website does not match the version of
> the software in their Debian distribution. This is rather depressing both from
> the Debian point of view and the upstream point of view.
> I anticipate the problem is only going to become worse.
>
> I do not know what we can do about it.

I believe all these observations to be correct.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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