On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 02:26:54PM +0000, Seger, Mark wrote: > >From: Bernd Schubert [mailto:bernd.schub...@fastmail.fm] > >I have to clearly admit, that I don't care if it is a hyphen, dash or > >minus, > >for me all three are the same. I even don't know which of those three is > >correct for something link "-s". > >If Tim hadn't told me he wants to have lintian --pedantic errors fixed > >as much > >as possible, I probably never would have cared...
I'm not going to insist on the manpage lintian fixes in the first upload, if it helps. They can sometimes take a bit of work/thought to get right, and I've not looked at this case in detail. > I guess I'm a loss of what to do next, if anything. I haven't been doing > anything with CVS as collectl is just a couple of scripts. If it would help > I could send you a copy of the latest tarball. > > So right now I guess the big questions for me are: > - are the man pages ok the way they are without having to worry about > explicitly quoting everywhere I use a hyphen? In fact, my keyboard only has > a single character, do other keyboards actually differentiate? > - I now have 3 more man pages for 3 utilities nobody every would use except > me and each now references the others. If this isn't necessary I'd be happy > to remove them I doubt this is necessary unless they're installed in /usr/bin/ (or similar). Debian doesn't require manual pages for auxiliary scripts - see: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s12.1 You don't have to get rid of them necessarily, if they're useful documentation. > - is it ok to keep my utility scripts in /usr/share/collectl/util so > - I don't corrupt /usr/bin with files nobody really ever uses? The > - man pages I wrote for them DO include the explicit path so people > - will know how to find them if they really want to. That's probably best, because otherwise we *will* need man pages. :) So I'd just make a release, and then you can make another release if we come back with a huge set of man page fixes or whatever. -- Tim Retout <t...@retout.co.uk> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org