Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> writes: > Yes, I overall agree with your arguments. However having it in the > policy means we get bug reports about manual pages and have to deal with > them, while they are not the primary source of documentation for > command-line options.
> In my opinion, we’d be better off with no manual page than with one that > is not maintained correctly. However the current policy encourages > shipping a buggy manual page over not shipping it at all. I think that's a bit of a reach. That may be how some of your bug reporters are interpreting Policy, but Policy doesn't say anything about what bugs are more severe. I don't think attributing that position to Policy is entirely fair. I agree with you that badly out-of-date man pages can be worse than no man pages at all and it's a question of balancing two bugs, something that package maintainers often have to do. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/873a0mkzxo....@windlord.stanford.edu
