"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[email protected]> writes: > > > 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. > > More than welcome, we are absolutley in no hurry for making a release. > > > 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. > > The (old) man pages where not updated, so that is far worse than > anything and even despite that the man pages where just a copy of > --help. If there is need to add something specific to a man page we > could do that (help2man provides such functionality), could you > reconsider working on such a patch?
I volunteer to work on adding help2man rules, I have example rules for my other projects easily available anyway. I propose to put them in a man/ sub-directory, similar to CoreUtils. Thoughts? I don't think I'm going to write *.x files, the default help2man outputs should be good enough as a starting point. Guillem, do you have a list of all the man pages you'd like to see? /Simon
