Le jeudi 04 mars 2010 à 09:07 +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : > It's already been pointed out that good manpages are plenty useful for > those programs in the proposed exclusion class. The “should” applies > equally well to those programs too. > > Sure, some programs don't have good manpages. But that's because the > manpages are not well maintained; it's not because the program belongs > to some special class that makes manpages useless.
Letting alone policy issues: what do you propose, *concretely* to improve the situation? Currently when you use “man foo” on a GUI program, you have 50% chances to see an incorrect documentation. And so far nobody seems interested in writing this documentation, let alone maintaining it. So far the only thing that I can conclude from this “discussion” (just a gathering of rants, actually) is that we should just remove manual pages that are not maintained upstream and tag all related bugs wontfix. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “A handshake with whitnesses is the same `- as a signed contact.” -- Jörg Schilling -- 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/1267694444.15754.6.ca...@meh