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Re: A Proposal: Each of Online Debian Man pages could have a wiki (Main page / Talk Page, etc.) at its bottom, with only Example Code Lines ...



On 2021-06-19 at 02:51, Richard Hector wrote:

> On 19/06/21 2:28 pm, Susmita/Rajib wrote:
> 
>> Aren't the ML members aware that Debian already has a Man Wiki
>> pages repository? Debian Man Wiki Pages are available at: 
>> https://manpages.debian.org/
> 
> I'm pretty sure that's not a wiki.
> 
> It looks like a set of automatically generated static pages.

In particular, I suspect that it is automatically generated from the
exact same data set as the man pages themselves (if not *from* the man
pages themselves), and therefore will by definition have the exact same
content as those man pages. Tweaks and adjustments, beyond the purely
mechanical sort involved in converting the formatting to HTML etc., are
almost certainly either A: not possible or B: excluded from the scope.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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