Please read section "12.1 Manual pages" in the Debian Policy Manual. The
absense of manualpages should be considered a bug. If this was some
package in Universe, one could say 'ah well'. But this is code in the
Ubuntu main-repository. I would expect Canonical not to release software
untill Lintian says it's fine. And I'm pretty sure Lintian warns about
missing manpages.

The advantage of man-pages is that you do not have to be on short terms,
because --help will scroll to fast. Also, it's a single point where you
can find documentation.

You can say 'you just need to enter the apt line' but that doesn't work.
sudo add-apt-repository http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid main
Error: need a repository as argument

So all isn't as obvious as one should expect. Canonical should just
write man-pages (I haven't seen any comments from MvO himself) and stop
making a mess of their own packages.

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add-apt-respository: no man page, and no --help
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/407779
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