Note on man pages

Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus) forum at ru.bir.ru
Mon May 11 14:45:20 UTC 2009


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
  > Sure. It can be worded something like:
> 
> "If additional useful patches exist in other distribution packages (ex:
> man pages in Debian), the package maintainer should evaluate them
> carefully, add those that are suitable and send them to the
> [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Staying_close_to_upstream_projects
> upstream project] as well, It is highly recommended that the package
> maintainers consider writing a man page, especially for command line
> applications where good documentation is missing in the upstream
> project, It might be useful to talk to the upstream projects first and
> check whether they are willing to accept man pages or other forms of
> documentation as patches"

Indeed!
You are done most of work!! Thank you very much.
I have done proposal: 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MAN_pages_which_exists_in_other_places(draft)




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