Hi Pádraig, On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 10:41:56PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: > man pages are not currently in git, only distributed in release tarballs > (for cases where one can't generate man pages on the build host).
I know. I've copied them from what Debian installs, for the moment, for working on them. > So any changes would need to be merge back into the utilities themselves, > so that their --help would be consistent. This issue would be multiplied > with translations. So I'm wary of a separate man page repo TBH. My idea is to have them under source control in the coreutils.git repo, not a separate repo. > Perhaps we could have a 3 tier setup with --help showing very summarized info, > man pages for more complete discussions, and info/html for the full docs. Yup, this is what I have in mind. > I'm not convinced of the need for that though. I'll work anyway on that, as some people have come to me in private asking for it, and suggesting me to fork and improve. I'll fork, indeed, but without intention to publish. Once I have decent manual pages, I'll offer them to be incorporated into coreutils.git. Have a lovely night! Alex -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es> Use port 80 (that is, <...:80/>).
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