On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 08:13:32AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Just to add one more opinion, I always write new man pages in POD and make > Perl do the hard work of converting them to *roff for me. (Of course, I'm > biased since I maintain Pod::Man.)
I also tend to like the POD syntax for writing manpages. > It means a build dependency on Perl, but the POD syntax is very simple > and quick to learn. Not necessarily, you can store in the package the already built version of the manpage and document in debian/README.Debian-source what is needed to re-generate the manpage. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. -!-
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