On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 09:32:26AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
Debian forces all programs to come with a man page. If one is
missing, this is considered a bug and packagers have to write one.
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html
I don't think that making a man page should be a guideline in fedora. If
th efedora contributor wants to work a man page with upstream, fine, but
it should be optional.
This would be an excellent idea for Fedora to follow (and we can,
license permitting, use the Debian man pages).
If there is a good debian man page and nothing upstream, I think it is
best practice for a packager to use the debian man page. But I don't
think that it needs a guideline, it is fairly obvious that it is right.
Maybe you could add something on
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Packaging_Tricks
stating that it is good to work a man page with upstream like debian
does and reusing debian manpage is also worth it.
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Pat