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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 Sb, 19 iun 21, 05:23:04, The Wanderer wrote:
> 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.

This is correct as far as I know, by design, and it's been very useful 
to be able to the manpage from other online documentation (the wiki, 
Release Notes, etc.).

> 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.

It surely would be possible to somehow attach a wiki-like editable part 
at the bottom. Whether that actually makes sense has already been 
addressed.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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