Hi, Toni Mueller wrote:
> I can only agree with Nelson. These days, a lot of git installations are > non-interactive to begin with, as part of some service or so. Nobody is > ever going to read the manual pages in such use cases. It's just a waste > - and if the packages are being generated separately, anyway, weakening > the dependency seems to be just a logical consequence. Have you read https://bugs.debian.org/613892#10? Would you be interested in working on a patch for upstream Git to do that? We can make the error message printed when manpages are missing a value set at compile time (see the Makefile for existing compile-time parameters like DEFAULT_EDITOR). I'm happy to give pointers, etc. to anyone wanting to work on this. Sincerely, Jonathan
