On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:06:37 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> GUI applications usually take only a few simple command-line options,
> and more importantly, when you use a modern development framework, these
> options will always be documented correctly with the --help switch.
Manpages can be used
2010/2/27 Josselin Mouette :
> Hi,
>
> currently policy §12.1 mandates that “each program, utility, and
> function should have an associated manual page”. However, the more I
> stomp on bug reports about manual pages, the less I am convinced of
> their usefulness for GUI programs.
>
> GUI applicati
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.4.0
Severity: wishlist
AFAIK, the current version of dpkg in stable supports symbols files, so I
think it is time we loosen the requirement for shlibs files when symbols
files are present.
Requiring shlibs when there is a symbols file also is error-prone, as wh
On 2010-02-27, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> currently policy =C2=A712.1 mandates that =E2=80=9Ceach program, utility, a=
> nd
> function should have an associated manual page=E2=80=9D. However, the more =
> I
> stomp on bug reports about manual pages, the less I am convinced of
> their usefulness for
Keep in mind that the apropos command only searches man pages, so I strongly
support keeping them around and creating them (even if only from --help)
when
they're missing.
2010/2/27 Josselin Mouette
> Hi,
>
> currently policy §12.1 mandates that “each program, utility, and
> function should have
Hi,
Am Samstag, den 27.02.2010, 20:06 +0100 schrieb Josselin Mouette:
> For extra points, we could agree on a way to generate manual pages
> automatically, either at installation time or on the fly, using
> help2man.
>
> Any comments before I submit a bug against the policy?
I generally agree w
Hi,
currently policy §12.1 mandates that “each program, utility, and
function should have an associated manual page”. However, the more I
stomp on bug reports about manual pages, the less I am convinced of
their usefulness for GUI programs.
GUI applications usually take only a few simple command-
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 03:44:53PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> That seems reasonable, although I think we should also point out the
> problems with using set -e when starting a daemon, namely that you need to
> be sure to wrap the start-stop-daemon invocation in a conditional so that
> you can pro
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