Ben Burton writes: > Hi.
>> Thanks a lot for these patches. I know it's a bit of an annoying >> thing to ask, but we ( the KDE Debian packagers ) and Debian in >> general have a bit of a tendency to prefer docbook style manpages >> ... > Do we? Debian policy simply requires manpages - there's no mention > of docbook in policy AFAICT. Moreover, many of the KDE packages for > debian are currently using native manpages (certainly all of mine > do). Well, remember when I wrote that manpage generator script. IIRC, it was said that it wasn't really useful because docbook style manpages were preferred... > If the submitter(s) have gone to the trouble of writing these > manpages, why can't we drop them in for the time being? If someone > wants to convert them to docbook then that's great but in the > meantime we'll have manpages as required by policy. > Note that it's nothing more than dropping the manpage in as > debian/kfoo.1 and adding the line "debian/kfoo.1" to > debian/kfoo.manpages. Ok, to the submitter: please ignore my previous comment cheers domi
