Re: man --> info?

[Gregory Guthrie <guthrie@mum.edu>]

At 05:19 PM 05/17/2000 +0300, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 06:50:43AM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> > Why are man pages abandoned for info?
>
> Only FSF do that. Debian _requires_ manpages for all.
-- but many man pages say "not maintained, use info."

so it is not just formatting them, but getting the relevant info.

BUGS
       The  GNU  folks,  in  general, abhor man pages, and create
       info documents instead.  The maintainer of tar falls  into
       this  category.   This  man  page is neither complete, nor
       current, and was included in the Debian Linux packaging of
       tar  entirely  to reduce the frequency with which the lack
       of a man page gets reported as a bug in our defect  track­
       ing system.

       If  you really want to understand tar, then you should run
       info and read the tar info pages, or use the info mode  in
       emacs.

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