Note on man pages

Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus) forum at ru.bir.ru
Sun May 10 22:16:50 UTC 2009


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 05/11/2009 02:38 AM, Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus) wrote:
>> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>> Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus) wrote:
>>>> Hm... Very good policy on first glance. Why Fedora do not do something
>>>> similar?
>>> Because it's often a lot of work to write a manpage and generally not
>>> worth
>>> the effort if upstream isn't interested in maintaining it.
>> We can often borrow them form Debian though :)
> 
> ... which was precisely the point of this note that I posted.
Yes, but not precisely ;)
While it is just a recommendation and only in maillist it will missed by 
many maintainers. I speak why we do not want propagate it to guidelines 
change and then to Reviewer MUST things?




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