> What I would like to see considered for policy (because I'm lazy), is > that for packages that only have info pages, in lieu of writing > manpages (which may or may not actually happen), we have a manpage > info-documented.1.gz that says more or less > > The documentation for package <foo> is available as info pages > under the following headings: > > bar > baz > > The maintainer for the package can then just copy this page, modify it > to fit their package, and put in the relevant manpage symlinks for > "foo, bar, and baz". Note that the Debian package name should always > be one of the symlinks. > > Bad idea?
Bad idea. Most users hate info documentation, that's a fact. And they would hate a distribution with only-info docs. Updating the manpages it's a cut&paste work, and `sort''s interface rarely changes.
