Hi Jeremy, On Sun, Sep 20, 2026 at 01:07:46PM +0200, Jeremy Bícha wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 10:21 AM Guido Günther <[email protected]> wrote: > > The update replaced devhelp with manuals. manuals isn't a replacement as > > it lacks the `-s` (search) and `-a` (assistant) options. > > > > Would be great if it grow into a full replacement (and also pick up > > devhelp's speed, loading is significatnly slower). > > It's interesting that you say that since the upstream developer is > also the sysprof developer and has done significant performance work > on other projects like ptyxis. "Loading" has multiple meanings; which > part of the app is slow?
Time from hitting <return> in the shell to launch the command until the search bar accepts input. > By the time you filed this bug, devhelp was already archived upstream > and removed from Debian Unstable, so it's not coming back to Debian. I'm using devhelp from snapshots.d.o now. Cheers, -- Guido > > Similar to many teams in Debian, the Debian GNOME team is small and > doesn't have the extra capacity to work on upstream feature requests. > Therefore, we generally close this kind of bug since this team is > unable to manage the few thousand open bugs we have. > > Unfortunately, the upstream developer has limited capacity for working > on features currently, but you could still try filing bugs there. > https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2026/05/14/a-small-update-from-france/ > > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/manuals/-/work_items > > Thank you, > Jeremy Bícha >
