Re: Missing man-pages
* Aljoscha Lautenbach <aljoscha.lautenbach@gmail.com> [120215 17:46]:
> 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. ;)
>
> 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?
Even if it is not used directly, it still is a patch for a bug in the
package. Even if the current maintainer will not fix it, some future
maintainer or some NMUer might. So it should not be a "is not used" but
rather a "is not currently used".
Bernhard R. Link
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