On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 13:38:41 -0500, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > > Does anyone have any thing to commit before I make a release?
Actually, I've few patches I've been meaning to send, so if it can wait I'll start sending them now. > Could you revert commit fed208adedb4b336135f5f82f0a1430e4d25a4d1 > where you removed the man pages? This is a regression I don't want > to introduce in the Debian packages, and will have to carry the > reverting patch otherwise. > > Sorry, but no. The texinfo pages are the offical documentation for > the GNU project, as a compromise we can accept a patch that generates > man pages using help2man. But any missing information should be added > to the texinfo manual, not to the man pages. Would you like to supply > such a patch before release? Generating the man pages from the --help output seems also a regression compared with their current content, so I guess I'll just ship them locally, with any further improvements. thanks, guillem
