Where are the man pages!! Package maintainers!

[Dotan Cohen]

On 5/16/05, Steffen Kluge <kluge at fujitsu.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 05:12 -0400, - wrote:
> > Making use of Fedora's shell is becoming absolutely
> > useless!! Alot of manpages for Extra pacakges are not
> > even bundled.. and making use of apropos is becoming
> > more and more powerless.
> 
> Much of the core stuff has their man pages in a separate package called
> man-pages. Do you have that installed?
> 
> > Enforce this policy, on
> > Debian these policies are very well defined and all my
> > packages show up switfly with apropos.
> 
> Even bluefish? I find it hard to believe that Fedora packagers drop man
> pages out of malice or laziness, if they really exist.
> 
> > Now what's so
> > hard about including manpages and whatis support with
> > the packages? If i want to know which program I have
> > for html editing for eg, bluefish would not show up
> > under apropos nor whatis.
> 
> That's right, the bluefish-0.13-0.fdr.2.2 (still on FC2 over here)
> package doesn't contain a man page :( However, I believe this is because
> nobody has written one yet. If Debian has a bluefish man page I wonder
> where they got it from?
> 
> > -- There are also core system
> > utilities that are not even bundled with manpages--
> 
> As mentioned above, install package man-pages.
> 
> That said, I wholeheartedly agree that man pages are in important part
> of any Unix system, and are not be neglected. It would appear that this
> is an area where OSS users that think they can't contribute anything of
> value (because they lack coding skills) could really get cracking...:)
> 
> Cheers
> Steffen.
> 

If I wanted to start working on the manpages (because I lack coding
skills but want to help), then who would I contact? Does anybody have
any requests for specific manpages? Such as Bluefish?

Dotan Cohen
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