>-----Original Message----- >From: Tim Retout [mailto:t...@retout.co.uk] >Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 10:20 AM >To: Seger, Mark >Cc: Bernd Schubert; debian-mentors@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: RFS: collectl > >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. >
great. In that I'm going to remove the manpages since I don't really thing they add any value and the utilities to have a 'usage' output when you run them w/o switches. I think it also will help keep things simpler. So should I just consider the kit done then and upload it to sourgeforge as-is? -mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org