On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 05:47:43PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 17:07 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > And WHY should Debian "care" about missing Manpages? > > > > It is the Upstream which should provide Documentation for tools > > otherwise they will be useless. I see it only as friendly > > "geste" if a Distribution like Debian create Manpages! > > Actually, manpages are dictated by the policy.
If tar is considered 'upsteam' then only the kernel is downstream. Surely Debian should care about the quality of the man pages for everything, especially in base debs. However, I suppose its a catch-22. If the policy said that the base utils had to have full man pages or else they wouldn't be included in Debian, then I guess Debian wouldn't be unless it changed from Debian/GNU Linux to Debian/Open BSD. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
