Re: Missing man pages: avr-libc/avr-man

2013-12-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Simon Kainz wrote: > My question now is: Should I write a manpage for avr-man stating that this > is only a wrapper for man That would be acceptable but I'm not sure how useful it would be. > man avr-man > > would actually execute > > man man That would not be u

Missing man pages: avr-libc/avr-man

2013-12-29 Thread Simon Kainz
Hello! Trying to write some missing manpages, I found the following http://qa.debian.org/man-pages.html lists avr-man (from package avr-libc) currently without a manpage. After inspecting avr-man ( http://sources.debian.net/src/avr-libc/1:1.8.0-4/scripts/avr-man.in ) i see that this is esse

Re: Missing man-pages

2012-02-15 Thread Aljoscha Lautenbach
Hej, On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:38:41 +0100 Stefano Zacchiroli 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 C

Re: Missing man-pages

2012-02-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Aljoscha Lautenbach [120215 17:46]: > However, I seem to recall an old discussion on one of the mailing lists about > the truth of this, because there actually are maintainers (mostly of graphical > packages) who refuse to accept man-pages for their binaries because they do > not > see the poin

Re: Missing man-pages

2012-02-15 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 05:46:17PM +0100, Aljoscha Lautenbach wrote [edited]: [..] > Obviously I do not want to spend time on something which is not used. I guess > contacting the maintainer(s) in question beforehand, asking whether > he/she/they > would appreciate someone writing a man-page

Bug#264719: http://qa.debian.org/man-pages.html not reflective of lintian report. Missing missing man pages.

2006-08-16 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Dave Harding 2004-08-10 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In brief, I don't think http://qa.debian.org/man-pages.html , > which is a listing of missing man pages is acurately reflecting the > lintian report at: > http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tbinary-without-manpage.html

Bug#264719: http://qa.debian.org/man-pages.html not reflective of lintian report. Missing missing man pages.

2005-12-03 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 02:08, Dave Harding wrote: > In brief, I don't think http://qa.debian.org/man-pages.html , > which is a listing of missing man pages is acurately reflecting the > lintian report at: > http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tbinary-without-manpage.html What does t

Bug#264719: http://qa.debian.org/man-pages.html not reflective of lintian report. Missing missing man pages.

2004-08-10 Thread Dave Harding
Package: qa.debian.org Greetings, In brief, I don't think http://qa.debian.org/man-pages.html , which is a listing of missing man pages is acurately reflecting the lintian report at: http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tbinary-without-manpage.html Furthermore, the qa.d.o page seems

Bug#154013: marked as done (qa.debian.org: No auto-update for missing man pages list)

2002-11-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 21 Nov 2002 19:47:19 + with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#154013: qa.debian.org: No auto-update for missing man pages list has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt wi

Bug#154013: qa.debian.org: No auto-update for missing man pages list

2002-07-23 Thread Andrew Ferrier
On 2002-07-23 at 21:30 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Well, I was going to suggest leaving it open until man-pages.html is a > little more up to date ... the cause may be different, but the symptom's > the same. If all else fails we could try something like parsing Contents > files rather than using

Bug#154013: qa.debian.org: No auto-update for missing man pages list

2002-07-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 09:14:03PM +0100, Andrew Ferrier wrote: > On 2002-07-23 at 20:10 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Actually, it is. It's just that a new lintian report hasn't been > > generated for some time due to other problems. > > OK, sorry. Guess you can close the bug. Well, I was going

Bug#154013: qa.debian.org: No auto-update for missing man pages list

2002-07-23 Thread Andrew Ferrier
On 2002-07-23 at 20:10 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 07:58:35PM +0100, Andrew Ferrier wrote: > > There is a list at > > > > http://qa.debian.org/man-pages.html > > > > of Debian packages that are missing manpages. However, this > > list doesn't seem to be automatically updat

Bug#154013: qa.debian.org: No auto-update for missing man pages list

2002-07-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 07:58:35PM +0100, Andrew Ferrier wrote: > There is a list at > > http://qa.debian.org/man-pages.html > > of Debian packages that are missing manpages. However, this > list doesn't seem to be automatically updated. Actually, it is. It's just that a new lintian report hasn'

Bug#154013: qa.debian.org: No auto-update for missing man pages list

2002-07-23 Thread Andrew Ferrier
Package: qa.debian.org Version: N/A; reported 2002-07-23 Severity: normal There is a list at http://qa.debian.org/man-pages.html of Debian packages that are missing manpages. However, this list doesn't seem to be automatically updated. I think this would be helpful, perhaps once a night or whene