On Tue, 2020-12-22 at 16:44 +0200, Andrius Merkys wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > On 2020-12-21 18:49, Andreas Tille wrote: > > I really like this idea. The problem why I stopped using plain > > help2man maintaining man pages is quite a hell when not provided, depends on tool "help" , customize which option to get for help, and result in quite often non up-to-date man pages... :-(
I usually don't... as quite often *xxx -h* is verbose enough to give software hints/usage and do not need a man page. > > is that in most cases the result is not a proper manpage. So I > > frequently > > used a createmanpages while beeing perfectly aware that upstream > > changes > > could make these (partially) wrong. I'd love to have a better > > solution - > > but the lintian check would be extremely helpful. > > Thank you for your opinion. I will proceed with submitting a request > for > the lintian check (with the help from Nilesh). I think such lintian > check would be of value independently of whichever way to create and > maintain manpages is chosen for standardization. > > Best, > Andrius > -- Olivier Sallou Univ Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA Irisa, Campus de Beaulieu F-35042 RENNES - FRANCE Tel: 02.99.84.71.95 gpg key id: 4096R/326D8438 (keyring.debian.org) Key fingerprint = 5FB4 6F83 D3B9 5204 6335 D26D 78DC 68DB 326D 8438
