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From: unruh on 15 Mar 2010 12:59 On 2010-03-15, J G Miller <miller(a)yoyo.ORG> wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:55:26 -0400, DesPen stated: > >> Todd <todd(a)invalid.com> writes: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Who maintains the "man" pages? The author of the program or >>> somewhere/someone else? >> >> Man pages are created by the program author. > > The manual page should be created by the author of the program or the > team creating the software package. > > However this is not always the case. > > For example the manual page for tar on Debian based distributions states > > QUOTE > > BUGS > > The GNU folks, in general, abhor man pages, and create info documents > instead. Unfortunately, the info document describing tar is licensed > under the GFDL with invariant cover texts, which makes it impossible > to include any text from that document in this man page. Most of > the text in this document was automatically extracted from the usage > text in the source. It may not completely describe all features of > the program. > > UNQUOTE > > Or for quite a number of manual pages on Debian based distributions, > by the original package maintainer. > > QUOTE > > AUTHOR > > This manual page was written by Joey Hess, for the Debian GNU/ > Linux system. > > UNQUOTE > > Does anybody ever bother to read Info pages? It is one of those religious wars, like emacs/vi. And no, I suspect man pages are far more often read than info pages, not least because the info useage is so so cluncky ( unless you happen to love emacs)
From: Todd on 15 Mar 2010 13:07 On 03/14/2010 10:06 PM, unruh wrote: > On 2010-03-15, Todd<todd(a)invalid.com> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Who maintains the "man" pages? The author of >> the program or somewhere/someone else? > > Did no one notify you? You do. > Seriously, Linux is a community project, and various features are done > by various people, volunteers. If there is some program you feel close > to, start writing. Hi Unruh, What good would that do if I do not know where to send it to? -T
From: Todd on 15 Mar 2010 13:14 On 03/15/2010 09:57 AM, unruh wrote: > Now if the OP had told us what his concern was, we could have given more > and better advice. I wanted to add a couple of lines to a man pages, of course!
From: Todd on 15 Mar 2010 13:16 On 03/15/2010 09:36 AM, J G Miller wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:55:26 -0400, DesPen stated: > >> Todd<todd(a)invalid.com> writes: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Who maintains the "man" pages? The author of the program or >>> somewhere/someone else? >> >> Man pages are created by the program author. > > The manual page should be created by the author of the program or the > team creating the software package. > > However this is not always the case. > No "Author" section, so I will have to ask the mailing list for the program. -T
From: John Hasler on 15 Mar 2010 13:10
J G Miller writes: > Does anybody ever bother to read Info pages? When both are available I prefer them. -- John Hasler jhasler(a)newsguy.com Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA |