Re: missing help2man

2008-11-28 Thread Karl Berry
Check that none of the man pages contain the error message. If any do, error out with a descriptive message. Ok, sounds good. We could also move such a check into 'distcheck'. That way 'dist' could still work if you don't have help2man, only 'distcheck' wouldn't. I think it wou

Re: missing help2man

2008-11-28 Thread Roumen Petrov
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Werner LEMBERG wrote on Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 07:18:46AM CET: Anyway, maintainer-mode isn't very interesting; few packages use it. The more important question is what to do in non-maintainer mode, where (it seems to me) exactly the same problem will occur. For instance,

Re: missing help2man

2008-11-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Anyway, maintainer-mode isn't very interesting; few packages use it. > The more important question is what to do in non-maintainer mode, > where (it seems to me) exactly the same problem will occur. For > instance, in GNU Hello (well, except that has only one man page) or > coreutils. Well, if