Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#852226: dgit: Want `dgit setup-maint-merge`"):
> Regarding keeping in sync with dgit-maint-merge(7), I was thinking of
> having this be manual. I.e. there are two copies of the text in the
> dgit source tree, with prominent comments reminding anyone who changes
> one of them to change the other.
>
> This is because we otherwise have to introduce logic to substitute
> things into the manpage, which doesn't seem worth it for this one case.
There is already a Makefile target to generate the manpage from the
pod source. So yes I would prefer to do this automatically.
> > Or maybe it could be called git-setup-dgit-maint-merge.
>
> We already have several `dgit setup-foo` commands that mess around with
> the working tree, so it seemed appropriate to me to add this one as
> another setup- command.
>
> How would you feel about shipping it as a standalone script, but then
> having `dgit setup-maint-merge` call out to that script?
Let me think about this.
Ian.
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