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

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