Hi Andreas,
Thanks for forking the thread and launching this conversation.
Le 01/10/2021 à 08:48, Andreas Tille a écrit :
Hi,
Am Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 02:10:50PM +0200 schrieb Pierre Gruet:
My concern with this is the average user might not even know about the
README.Debian file and could forget to check in the manpage.
My gut feeling is that the average Debian Med user does not know about
the docs we are providing. At least all those users I had the chance to
ask have never read any README.Debian neither did they confirmed they
know about /usr/share/doc/packagename.
This is interesting, thanks for sharing this information. Actually I
cannot say I am surprised.
Do you know if users read our manpages? I feel we can expect /some/
users will type
man command
if something is not working as expected, but for sure not all of them will.
But I am unsure
there is a better way, as a debconf information, for instance, would be
shown only once and only to the system administrator...
I agree that debconf information (or debian/NEWS) will be seen only once
by some admin and it is not sure whether the admin is a user at the same
time and will pass the information.
While I'm aware that this is not a good situation I do not have any idea
how to enhance it.
Have you sometimes used debconf to spread information? This (or
debian/NEWS) gives a chance to reach some end users at the cost of
implementing the debconf mechanism / writing a NEWS text. But if they
skip the information and do not know about the
/usr/share/doc/packagename directory...
Kind regards
Andreas.
I am interested in ideas or comments on this issue!
Best regards,
--
Pierre
