[From the announcement of man-pages 1.19] >People have often sent Section 1 man pages, and so far I have rejected >those - they belong in the distribution of the respective programs. Of >course I still feel like that, but probably I'll include some Section 1 >pages in coming releases, for cases where the official distribution does >not provide them. For example, many people complained about the lack of >man pages for diff and cmp, and since GNU does not (want to?) provide >these, I'll be happy to include such pages if anybody submits them. > >Andries - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As it's Debian's policy to have manpages for all binaries, we are bound to have a number of such section 1 manpages already - maybe someone on debian-doc can compile a list? Given that section 1 manpages are now accepted for "manpages" if upstream maintainers don't want to include them, I'd like to suggest policy be ammended to include a statement along the lines of : If the upstream maintainers do not wish to integrate a manpage (especially : a section 1 one), please forward it to the upstream maintainer of the : manpages package (Andries E. Brouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) who has expressed : willingnes to include them in manpages. Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY, UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
