On Thursday, 27 November 2008 at 11:06, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
On 27.11.2008 10:32, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 08:28:55PM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>>Far too often I find myself looking for non-existent man pages, Google
>>results, or help menus in GNU/Linux software. What's the problem? There
>>is no single, reliable, standardized documentation system that is
>>universally accepted or appreciated. Yes, what I'm about to describe
>>should obsolete man, info, and all the other dozen "help" documentation
>>found in all the Fedora packages.
>
>Debian forces all programs to come with a man page. If one is
>missing, this is considered a bug and packagers have to write one.
>
>http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html
>
>This would be an excellent idea for Fedora to follow (and we can,
>license permitting, use the Debian man pages).
My 2 cent: It would be way better for everyone to get those man pages
upstream.
One reason for that: If you add man pages from debian to a fedora
package then you have to recheck every now and then if the man pages are
still up2date. That afaics often tends to be forgotten (I'm guilty
myself here).
+1. Also I'd make it a SHOULD item in review guidelines.
Regards,
R.
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