On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 03:50:48PM -0600, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > Ok...so as I work on these 2.2 packages one of the policy bits that is still > yet to be dealt with is man pages. According to policy every binary must > have a manpage. (even if there is a common one which others link to) Well > KDE doesn't do man pages...they do docbook...so I need help. > > soo... anyone willing to help create a man page for every binary even some > common man pages. IMO all that is really needed in these are: > > 1: basic description > 2: pointers to full documentation > 3: copyright info (basic..it's GPL'd and the authors are... type of info) > 4: command line info if available > > I'm looking at this for the 2.2 release so we will need to work off the > 2.2 packages and binaries. There are several tools which can help with > this... > take a look at all the docbook* packages and there are also man page editors > now. > I started to do something with this a couple of months ago. Basically I used help2man, slightly modified as it wants --help but the kde binaries respond to -help...
Hmm... maybe one? common manpage for each upstream source package, ie kdelibs, kdebase, kdegraphics, list the binaries provided by the source package and point to /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/$pkg? Then use 100's of symlinks? Or do you think more fine-grained detail? Gordon Sadler
