[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Mays) writes:
Policy says that any binary must come with a manpage. I would like to
have the same for packages.
For every package? You must be kidding!!
I just looked for a parser generator that outputs C++ code and found
pccts. After installation I tried
I (Brian Mays) wrote:
While I agree that it is probably a good idea for large packages, with
many binaries, to provide such a man page (in section 7, of course), it
makes no sense for packages in general. Personally, I think that such
policy would be a waste of our developers' time to
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On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 07:16:19PM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Mays) writes:
Policy says that any binary must come with a manpage. I would like to
have the same for packages.
For every package? You must be kidding!!
I just looked for a parser
Policy says that any binary must come with a manpage. I would like to
have the same for packages.
For every package? You must be kidding!!
I just looked for a parser generator that outputs C++ code and found
pccts. After installation I tried man pccts, but that failed.
/usr/doc/pccts
On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 10:17:43PM -0500, Brian Mays wrote:
My suggestion is now, that man pccts should either point to the
main binaries manpage or show a page that gives a one-line description
of the binaries of the package or one that has just relevant see
also: xxx entries.
While I
On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 10:17:43PM -0500, Brian Mays wrote:
Besides, is it so difficult to do dpkg -L pccts? If you want a list
of the binaries, then try dpkg -L pccs | grep bin.
Yes, people should know about dpkg -L in their quest for package level
documentation.
Not only will it show you
From: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au
What's wrong with using README.Debian for this purpose, which is already
in common use?
Probably nothing, except that it isn't used consistently.
Daniel
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Policy says that any binary must come with a manpage. I would like to have
the same for packages.
I just looked for a parser generator that outputs C++ code and found pccts.
After installation I tried man pccts, but that failed.
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