On 2023-10-15 16:08:32, Wookey wrote: > I think you can consider me representative of the typical maintainer > who's intereaction with *roff languages almost entirely takes the > form: 'Oh bloody hell I really ought to write a man page for this > because upstream is too youthful to have done so - now how the hell > does roff/nroff/groff work again' (no I'm not sure which it is I'm > actually using, nor how any of this machinery really works, nor where > to look for good practice, so I mostly copy existing stuff and DDG for > answers, which is less than ideal when it comes to details like this).
At least you're not lazy. I am, so what I did many times is add a build-depends on pandoc, and write the man page in rst or md. I think that's a worse solution (pandoc is really heavy), but at least, I don't have to go back to *roff. regards, iustin
