On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 04:04:29PM -0400, Tom Metro wrote: > Filippo Giunchedi wrote: >> ...how about hinting about a debian-specific behavior and pointing the user >> to README.Debian from the manpage ? > > I've seen that done, where a paragraph is tacked on near the end of man > pages that notes there is Debian-specific behavior and references > README.Debian. That's a step in the right direction, but a separate > paragraph near the end can still be overlooked, and assumes the user is > going to read the full man page before starting to use the tool. Worse > still, you'll be left with text in one part that contradicts text > elsewhere.
I've added such debian-specific section to the manpage pointing to README.Debian, as I'd like to keep upstream diff to a minimum. Also the wrapper is meant to not alter the behaviour of autossh but only to act if -M or AUTOSSH_PORT is not specified. filippo -- Filippo Giunchedi - http://esaurito.net - 0x6B79D401 Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped. -- Groucho Marx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
