On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 10:23:01AM -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 5:21 AM Bill Allombert wrote:
> > The man page provides a link between the executable name and the app.
> > This is useful in a lot of situation. Writing such a manpage is not
> > a waste of time.
>
> I think
Hi!
On Sat, 2025-01-25 at 12:29:56 +, Sean Whitton wrote:
> On Sat 25 Jan 2025 at 12:11pm +01, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > This multitude of formatting languages has bothered me for a while,
> > every time I take a peek at the sources. :) So this time around I
> > pondered how hard could it be to
Jeremy Bícha writes:
> The manpage does not really have useful content.
as a user i both agree and disagree with this: i agree that
documentation is not very good, but i disagree that nothing would be
better than something. Even if people dont use man themselves, the
man-page online is often the
On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 5:21 AM Bill Allombert wrote:
> The man page provides a link between the executable name and the app.
> This is useful in a lot of situation. Writing such a manpage is not
> a waste of time.
I think apps already have .desktop files that provide that link.
As an example of
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On Sat 25 Jan 2025 at 12:11pm +01, Guillem Jover wrote:
> This multitude of formatting languages has bothered me for a while,
> every time I take a peek at the sources. :) So this time around I
> pondered how hard could it be to do that unification, and started
> looking into this, which d
Hi!
On Sat, 2025-01-25 at 11:21:18 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 08:16:29PM -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> > - Many new contributors to Debian in an attempt to get their new
> > package "Lintian clean" spend significant time creating a manpage for
> > their app, often a GUI
Hello Jeremy,
It's very annoying when you install something and try to 'man foo' and
you don't get documentation. I don't think that situation has got any
less annoying over the past twenty years. It makes the system we are
producing less useful.
I don't think the fact that we have many open Li
Hi!
I think at the time of the DebianDoc-SGML to DocBook-XML conversion
and then from that to reStructuredText, there seemed to be agreement
(AFAIR) among the editors that unifying (ideally) into a single
formatting language would be best?
For reference there are currently still three languages i
On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 08:16:29PM -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> - Many new contributors to Debian in an attempt to get their new
> package "Lintian clean" spend significant time creating a manpage for
> their app, often a GUI app with no command line options. The manpage
> does not really have usef
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