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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dominik@greysector.net">dominik@greysector.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">On Thursday, 27 November 2008 at 11:06, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:<br>> On 27.11.2008 10:32, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:<br>> >On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 08:28:55PM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote:<br>
> >>Far too often I find myself looking for non-existent man pages, Google<br>> >>results, or help menus in GNU/Linux software. What's the problem? There<br>> >>is no single, reliable, standardized documentation system that is<br>
> >>universally accepted or appreciated. Yes, what I'm about to describe<br>> >>should obsolete man, info, and all the other dozen "help" documentation<br>> >>found in all the Fedora packages.<br>
> ><br>> >Debian forces all programs to come with a man page. If one is<br>> >missing, this is considered a bug and packagers have to write one.<br>> ><br>> ><a href="http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html" target="_blank">http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html</a><br>
> ><br>> >This would be an excellent idea for Fedora to follow (and we can,<br>> >license permitting, use the Debian man pages).<br>><br>> My 2 cent: It would be way better for everyone to get those man pages<br>
> upstream.<br>><br>> One reason for that: If you add man pages from debian to a fedora<br>> package then you have to recheck every now and then if the man pages are<br>> still up2date. That afaics often tends to be forgotten (I'm guilty<br>
> myself here).<br><br></div>+1. Also I'd make it a SHOULD item in review guidelines.<br><br>Regards,<br>R.<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br>Fedora <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann</a><br>
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<div><br><br clear="all">I agree, sometimes Fedora isn't regarded as the best documented distro out there, and</div>
<div>that's bad.<br>-- <br>Aioanei Rares<br><a href="mailto:schaiba@fedoraproject.org">schaiba@fedoraproject.org</a><br>"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese." --Charles de Gaulle <br><br></div>