Note on man pages

[Michael Cronenworth]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>   
>> Debian has a policy that all the commands should have man pages as part
>> of their review process. Unfortunately they don't seem to be sending it
>> upstream. If you are a package maintainer for some application, that is
>> missing a man page, it might be a good to look into the Debian sources
>> for man page patches, add them to your package and send it upstream as
>> well. Note that upstream might require you to clean up the man page in
>> the process.
>>     
>
> Well, there are many upstreams rejecting Debian's patches outright, saying
> manpages are obsolete and redundant with any of:
> * info documentation (those are mostly the GNU projects),
> * HTML/docbook/GUI documentation (that has long been KDE's position, but
> recently they have started merging manpages from Debian),
> * plaintext documentation or
> * --help or other usage output.
>   

Why does this discussion sound so familiar? [1]

:)

[1]
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-November/msg02015.html