Re: Submitting bugs for manpage improvements

2010-03-18 Thread James Vega
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > Dear devscripts maintainers, > > On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 07:17 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: >> >> I have written a small script to make it easy to submit manpage >> improvements (it's attached). >> I believe that it much more effective to submi

Re: Submitting bugs for manpage improvements

2010-03-07 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Dear devscripts maintainers, On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 07:17 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > I have written a small script to make it easy to submit manpage > improvements (it's attached). > I believe that it much more effective to submit a patch, rather than > explaining what needs to be improved.

Re: Submitting bugs for manpage improvements

2009-10-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:33:37AM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > Since the proof of concept was fairly well accepted, I intend to polish > my script a little bit before submitting it. Pretty cool, thanks for the status update. BTW, do we have a bug report where the progress of this can be tracked

Re: Submitting bugs for manpage improvements

2009-10-29 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 09:26 +, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 07:17:53AM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > I have written a small script to make it easy to submit manpage > > improvements (it's attached). > > Hi Franklin, > in the end, have you decided where/how to ship t

Re: Submitting bugs for manpage improvements

2009-10-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 07:17:53AM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > I have written a small script to make it easy to submit manpage > improvements (it's attached). Hi Franklin, in the end, have you decided where/how to ship this script? I'd personally would like to see it in devscripts ... and I w

Re: Submitting bugs for manpage improvements

2009-10-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 01:02:26AM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > I have received some feedback from a developer who is concerned about > having to deal with the contribution from "nitpickers". I must admit > that I am concern with bikeshedding and nitpicking too. I fail to see how this concern sh

Re: Submitting bugs for manpage improvements

2009-10-21 Thread Ben Finney
Simon Paillard writes: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 01:02:26AM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > A. We could have a different work-flow for (non)-native package: > > - For non-native package, we could instruct people to submit the > >diff-file to the upstream maintainer. > > - For native packag

Re: Submitting bugs for manpage improvements

2009-10-21 Thread Simon Paillard
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 01:02:26AM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 07:17 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > I have written a small script to make it easy to submit manpage > > improvements (it's attached). > > I believe that it much more effective to submit a patch, rather than >

Re: Submitting bugs for manpage improvements

2009-10-20 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <874optd4jd@benfinney.id.au> you wrote: > If the bug then needs to be forwarded upstream, that facility is also > there, as is severity ?wishlist? and, in extremis, the ?wontfix? tag. And that checking needs to be manually. A lot of man page nitpicking is distribution specific examp

Re: Submitting bugs for manpage improvements

2009-10-20 Thread Ben Finney
Frank Lin PIAT writes: > A. We could have a different work-flow for (non)-native package: > - For non-native package, we could instruct people to submit the >diff-file to the upstream maintainer. Surely a big part of the job of a Debian package maintainer is to be an interface between upstr

Re: Submitting bugs for manpage improvements

2009-10-20 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 07:17 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > I have written a small script to make it easy to submit manpage > improvements (it's attached). > I believe that it much more effective to submit a patch, rather than > explaining what needs to be improved. The tool works like quilt... [