Missing man-pages
Hej,
I had a look at http://qa.debian.org/man-pages.html where it is clearly stated
that it would be useful to write missing man-pages.
However, I seem to recall an old discussion on one of the mailing lists about
the truth of this, because there actually are maintainers (mostly of graphical
packages) who refuse to accept man-pages for their binaries because they do not
see the point and do not want to maintain them. I did not find the discussion in
the archives just now, but I'm pretty sure I did not imagine it. ;)
Was there some kind of consensus on this in the end?
I did not follow Debian mailing lists for about a year because I lacked the time
and just recently started to listen in again.
Obviously I do not want to spend time on something which is not used. I guess
contacting the maintainer(s) in question beforehand, asking whether he/she/they
would appreciate someone writing a man-page is the only way to go?
Kind regards,
Aljoscha Lautenbach
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