Hi! On Wed, 2026-05-06 at 16:58:49 +0000, Juan wrote: > El miércoles, 6 de mayo de 2026 a las 13:49, Simon Josefsson > <[email protected]> escribió: > > - Where is debian/siso.1 coming from? It looks auto-generated, so > > either should be generated during build, or preferably, somehow > > upstreamed rather than being a Debian-specific man page. I've used > > help2man from debian/rules in several packages. > > I switched to help2man with a siso.h2m.
Using help2man for compiled programs breaks cross-compilation. And adapting the packaging to support help2man and cross-building is IMO not worth the supposed gain of using help2man, because it requires doing a native and a host build to be able to run the program. A static man page is superior in any possible way, also because just using the output from --help tends to be not very useful anyway (except for providing that output on the sites like manpages.debian.org). Using help2man as a starting template to further fill in a static man page seems like a good use for that tool though. Thanks, Guillem
