Bug#207123: Bug#207126: docbook-to-man conversion ?
Ben Burton writes:
> Hi.
>> Thanks a lot for these patches. I know it's a bit of an annoying
>> thing to ask, but we ( the KDE Debian packagers ) and Debian in
>> general have a bit of a tendency to prefer docbook style manpages
>> ...
> Do we? Debian policy simply requires manpages - there's no mention
> of docbook in policy AFAICT. Moreover, many of the KDE packages for
> debian are currently using native manpages (certainly all of mine
> do).
Well, remember when I wrote that manpage generator script. IIRC, it
was said that it wasn't really useful because docbook style manpages
were preferred...
> If the submitter(s) have gone to the trouble of writing these
> manpages, why can't we drop them in for the time being? If someone
> wants to convert them to docbook then that's great but in the
> meantime we'll have manpages as required by policy.
> Note that it's nothing more than dropping the manpage in as
> debian/kfoo.1 and adding the line "debian/kfoo.1" to
> debian/kfoo.manpages.
Ok, to the submitter: please ignore my previous comment
cheers
domi
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