On 28-Feb-2009, James Westby wrote: > I'm interested in why you feel providing a man page that points > users to the preferred way to get the help for the tool is a bad > thing?
Preferred by whom? The Debian operating system has a deliberate policy of providing a manual page for every command, precisely so that there is a *single* preferred place to get at the information that a manual page provides for commands. > I could auto-generate the man page from this help text, but that's > frankly more work than I am willing to put in. The manpage system is a standard interface to a standard set of information about all commands on the system, as promised to users by Debian policy. Maintaining a proper manpage for every command is, frankly, part of the job that a package maintainer accepts. > bzr provides a great help system, which I plan to improve > bzr-builddeb's use of soon, and so I would prefer that users use > that. The bzr-specific help system continues to be useful and certainly shouldn't go away. It is specific to that tool, though, and as such is no substitute for a proper manpage as must be provided for every command on the system. -- \ “When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies | `\ and astound your friends.” —Mark Twain, _Following the Equator_ | _o__) | Ben Finney <b...@benfinney.id.au>
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