Re: [LAD] Build and get your package in Debian/ Ubuntu (was Re: [LAU] Join the Debian Multimedia Team! (to improve the state of Linux audio))

From: Grammostola Rosea <rosea.grammostola@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Apr 02 2009 - 01:57:36 EEST

Dennis Schulmeister wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 14:48 +0200, Grammostola Rosea wrote:
>
>>> 3. Documentation - especially man pages which are required for all
>>> binaries (even if they just refer to online documentation or info
>>> pages). This requirement is often skipped for Ubuntu-only packages which
>>> makes me as a user sad.
>>>
>> Yeah an manpage is required. You can use the app gmanedit for example to
>> create one.
>>
>
> I really got accustomed to help2man because creating man pages is a snap
> with it. All it takes is the following:
>
> * A sanely formated text file (w/ optional troff commands)
> * Your program's --version string
> * Your program's --help string
>
> That's it. With such tools available there's really no excuse for not
> having a man page.
>
>
>
Thanks for the tip!

What do you think, should an upstream author take care of the manpage or
the package maintainer?

\r

_______________________________________________
Linux-audio-dev mailing list
Linux-audio-dev@email-addr-hidden
http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
Received on Thu Apr 2 04:15:01 2009

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Thu Apr 02 2009 - 04:15:02 EEST