The Debian policy section you linked to says a bug regarding an application
with no manpage may be forwarded to upstream. Is that a good idea in this
case? That way a manpage could be created upstream (by me if necessary) and
then everyone who uses upstream would also have a manpage.
In the meantime, here's a patch that adds the package Suggests.
oldtechaa
On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 8:42 AM, intrigeri <[email protected]> wrote:
> oldtechaa:
> > So the options are generally either keep it in $PATH and add docs or move
> > it to /usr/share/doc/?
>
> Yes.
>
> > If I were to work on thie docs and submit a patch,
> > how long would you be willing to wait? I might not be able to get to it
> > right away.
>
> Any time before the end of August works for me :)
>
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 7f99dac..ea15126 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ Depends:
${perl:Depends},
${shlibs:Depends},
libglib-perl (>= 3:1.320),
+Suggests:
+ libxml-libxml-perl,
Description: Perl bindings for gobject-introspection libraries
GObject is an abstraction layer that allows programming with an object
paradigm that is compatible with many languages. It is a part of Glib,
