Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> 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, that response pretty > much guarantees that the maintainer won't be taking the initiative to > keep the manpage up to date.
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 document around the man page requirement could point to help2man as a quick solution in case there is useful --help output but no man page. /Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
