On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 01:11:44PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > It is not the job of the Debian maintainer to write the upstream > package. The job of the Debian maintainer is to package the > existing upstream package in a form convenient for Debian users in > a way that is complementary to the rest of the system.
Indeed. Consider, though, that writing a small manpage that points at existing documentation is not onerous. It is about as hard as figuring out how to create a menu entry. I think it's part of the packaging process. If a package doesn't have *any* documentation, then there's not much point in packaging it -- only people who have source code will be able to use it. Richard Braakman
