Ben Finney wrote:
Wording and tone aside, is that expectation reasonable?
Yes.
What course of
action is open to a user of the package, with a maintainer who has
made it plain they're not interested in following (this part of)
policy?
There's nothing direct you can do as user. As a packager,
ma, 2009-03-02 kello 14:19 -0600, Manoj Srivastava kirjoitti:
> Then, every few revisions, I would resync the man page. I
> consider this just one of the things that Debian maintainedrs
> ought to do -- I mean, we are not just glorified packagers.
We could aid this process by having a to
(Gunnar, and others, please don't send individual responses that you
also send to the mailing list.)
Gunnar Wolf writes:
> Hmh, this could even be promoted as a "best packaging practice".
> Many authors do ship properly-formatted --help entries, and our
> hand-generated manpages can often linger
On Mon, Mar 02 2009, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Simon Josefsson dijo [Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 11:22:52AM +0100]:
>> How about submitting a patch to use help2man instead?
>>
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/>
>> Then the man page will be kept up to date with --help output.
>>
>> Possibly the docum
On Mon, Mar 02 2009, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> Many times the problem is that upstreams do provide such adequate
> documentation... in other formats than man pages. What should the
> packager do in that case? Create a dummy man page pointing out to eg.
> /usr/share/doc/foopkg/html/fooprog.html? Copy
At Mon, 2 Mar 2009 13:29:06 -0600,
Gunnar Wolf wrote:
>
> Hmh, this could even be promoted as a "best packaging practice". Many
> authors do ship properly-formatted --help entries, and our
> hand-generated manpages can often linger behind the truth. Any strong
> opinions against?
Not to rehash a
Ben Finney writes:
> I'm having a conversation with a Debian packager regarding a manpage
> that, currently, is a mere placeholder saying “please see foocommand
> --help”, giving none of the useful information normally found in a
> manpage.
...
> I have submitted a manpage as a patch. However, th
Howdy all,
I'm having a conversation with a Debian packager regarding a manpage
that, currently, is a mere placeholder saying “please see foocommand
--help”, giving none of the useful information normally found in a
manpage.
I would like the specific package to remain anonymous at the moment
(tho
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