On Mon, 2014-11-24 at 16:44 -0800, Tim Graham wrote: > I raised the issue in #23903 and Aymeric mentioned that it may be > useful for downstream packagers, e.g. Debian. I installed > python-django via apt-get on Ubuntu 14.04 and confirmed the existence > of the man page. I'd like to remove it though (or make it point people > to 'django-admin --help') as it's out-of-date and 'django-admin > --help' provides the same information in a much easier to maintain > format. Does anyone else have input on this? >
As far as Debian is concerned, not having a manpage for an executable installed in the standard path is a bug. So if you don't provide one, one will probably be written for Debian anyway, albeit not a particularly good one. However, as Ben pointed out, "man foo" is the standard interface to getting long-format information on the "foo" command, if not always the full docs (grrrr info grrrrr). So I'd suggest considering implementing something to generate a man page from whatever you wish the "canonical" source of the information to be. Cheers, Nick -- Nick Phillips / [email protected] / 03 479 4195 # These statements are mine, not those of the University of Otago -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/1416963109.6414.18.camel%40otago.ac.nz. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
