"Ken Spath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Proposal regarding future packaging:
>
> Add an additional manual page to new/future/updated packages that is
> the same as the package name. IF and only IF there would NOT be a
> conflict with an existant necessary manual page AND IF there is no
> binary in a package that is the same as the package name.
I did run into the same problem a few times myself and it always
bugged me. So yes, please keep at this.
Maybe it could be as simple as a dh_* command that looks at
[/usr]/[s]bin and /usr/share/man and generates a pretty printed
version of the contents. It could maybe extract the NAME section of
manpages for binaries to give an idea of what they do:
PACKAGE(x) Debian Package PACKAGE(x)
NAME
x - The Debian x package
BINARIES
bash - GNU Bourne-Again SHell
cp - copy files and directories
sed - stream editor for filtering and transforming text
DOCUMENTATION
/usr/share/doc/x/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/x/examples
SEE ALSO
bash(1), info cp, sed(1)
Hope that encourages you to work on this.
MfG
Goswin
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