On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 09:50 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 05 mars 2010 à 17:41 +0000, brian m. carlson a écrit : > > This still has the problem that I don't know immediately where to get > > the documentation. Do I use the GNOME help system? KDE's? man? info? > > a DVI? a PDF? The benefit of manual pages is that there is one uniform > > way to get basic documentation on a command and how it is to be run. > > Other documentation can be referenced from that manual page. > > This discussion is running into circles. > > GNOME, Xfce and KDE maintainers all explained that we have no interest > in working on manual pages, and our upstreams don’t either.
This is an important information that many people weren't aware of (at least, myself). > I will personally just sit on policy §12.1, mark manpage-related bugs as > wontfix, and, to plagiarize Yves-Alexis, it won’t prevent me from > sleeping at night. Your conclusion sounds very similar to the policy's statement: ``[programs] should have an associated manual'' (my definition of "SHOULD" is RFC2119 compliant) Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1267966889.21347.4303.ca...@solid.paris.klabs.be
