On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > > > I guess the question then becomes: since Policy describes supposed best > > practice for Debian, *should* we be more specific about the format of a > > man page? I think the conventions described in ‘man-pages(7)’ are a good > > basis for recommendations for all Debian man pages. > > Given our limited success in getting people to provide man pages for every > binary to start with, I'm reluctant to ask package maintainers to patch > upstream man pages to do relatively inconsequential things like add dates > to the .TH line. I suspect most readers of the man page don't care.
I agree. While Ben's suggestion sounds nice in theory, it's bound to be a recommendation that will not be acted upon because we have many more interesting challenges to tackle. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
