Hello, so I've created https://manpath.be - a site that provides access to the man pages of several distributions - including several Fedora and CentOS versions.
See also its about page https://manpath.be/about for some of its features (e.g. permalinks, short links, reverse links ...). While working on this project I noticed a few issues with the man pages of Fedora packages: Some packages include man pages auto-generated by doxygen. In my experience, those man pages are usually pretty human un-readable and thus quite useless. Thus, I exclude them from manpath.be. Example: LAPACKE_cgges3_work(3) from the lapack package That package contains 10 thousand or so auto-generated man pages. Perhaps it makes sense to recommend packagers to exclude doxygen generated man pages from Fedora packages. For example, as part of the packaging policy. Perhaps it also makes sense to add some man-page related checks to rpmlint or fedora-review (?), e.g. to check - if a package creates sub-directories under /usr/share/man/man*/ Example: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1722350 - if a man page is empty - if a man page redirects to itself Example: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1720942 - if a man page has non-standard suffixes like 1.orig.gz instead of 1.gz - if the suffix of a man page matches the one of its subdirectory Examples: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1722440 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1722447 - if a man page contains verbatim escape sequences Example: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1725301 - if the man page display produces groff/grotty warnings/errors Example: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1725402 Thoughts? Best regards Georg _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
