(Gunnar, and others, please don't send individual responses that you also send to the mailing list.)
Gunnar Wolf <gw...@gwolf.org> 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 behind the truth. Any > strong opinions against? The information appropriate for a man page (separate “description”, “options”, “examples”, “files”, “environment variables”, “see also”, etc.) is not appropriate for cramming into a ‘--help’ output, so shouldn't be expected to be there. I don't know how many ‘--help’ outputs actually provide all that information in such a form that ‘help2man’ can extract it; I think the number would be quite few. I would expect that any which do are rather bloated as a result. -- \ “I bought a dog the other day. I named him Stay. It's fun to | `\ call him. ‘Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!’ He went insane. | _o__) Now he just ignores me and keeps typing.” —Steven Wright | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
