On 28/02/2010 01:32, Ben Finney wrote: > 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. > If manpages were useful only for documenting command-line options, this > would be a valid point. As has been pointed out, though, manpages for > programs are useful for much more than that. >
But that's why he doesn't propose to forbid manpages for GUI programs, just to not have them mandatory (well, agreed, it's a “should”). For programs where there's no point in having a manpage (and only them) he proposes to drop the “should” requirement, that's all. That doesn't prevent motivated people/upstream to provide manpages, it just spares some time for maintainers. I have few cases in Xfce of such programs (like all the xfce4-*-settings). Cheers, -- Yves-Alexis -- 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/4b8ea7aa.2060...@debian.org
