--- Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, I welcome comments on the contents of the manpage, which you can > find at http://charles.plessy.org/debian/treeviewx/tv.html
Looks like a good start. You're making the same mistake I see in a lot of Debian web pages. (Where is the template you started from? I'd like to file a bug report on it.) Your first sentence is: "This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page." That's the wrong way to begin -- I'm reading the man page to learn about command-line options, environment variables, configuration files, and, of course, what the program does. Leave the authorship information for the AUTHOR section. Also, once you've submitted your new man page upstream there is a good chance they'll include it in future releases, at which point "the original program" will have a man page! You include a URL to upstream's web page in the doc (good, more man pages should do this). Is there any chance they will license the doc on that page under a suitable license (perhaps the same as used for the software) for Debian to include it as a treeview-doc package? --Andre __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
