On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 08:16:29PM -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote: > - Many new contributors to Debian in an attempt to get their new > package "Lintian clean" spend significant time creating a manpage for > their app, often a GUI app with no command line options. The manpage > does not really have useful content.
> - Many open bugs exist requesting manpages for apps where it may > similarly not be needed. The man page provides a link between the executable name and the app. This is useful in a lot of situation. Writing such a manpage is not a waste of time. Maybe we need a tool dh_help2man that would automatically build man pages. using ---help and the synopsis in debian/control. Cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here.
