Hej, On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:38:41 +0100 Stefano Zacchiroli <z...@debian.org> wrote:
> IIRC the discussion you've in mind, it was questioning the usefulness > of man pages specifically for GUI applications. That is indeed the one I was referring to. > IIRC, nobody did question > the usefulness of manpages for CLI applications. So, as long as you > stick with those, you'll be fine. For GUI applications, check with the > maintainer first (publicly, as already mentioned by Serafeim). Ok, perhaps it would be a good idea to mention this on the website [1] as well? [1] http://qa.debian.org/man-pages.html On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:43:09 +0100 "Bernhard R. Link" <brl...@debian.org> wrote: > Even if it is not used directly, it still is a patch for a bug in the > package. Even if the current maintainer will not fix it, some future > maintainer or some NMUer might. So it should not be a "is not used" > but rather a "is not currently used". Or at the very least I would have learned something about the binary and its command line options myself, you certainly have a point. Thanks for the answers. Regards, Aljoscha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120215203130.42fa9547@Richard
