Lamont Peterson escribió:
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On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:44:16 +0300 Ville Skyttä ville.skytta@iki.fi wrote:
On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Martin Marques wrote:
The thing is that the discussion started flipping towards why, if there is a binary symlink, there isn't a man page symlink? This could, in the case of cdrecord and wodim, or mkisofs and genisofs, end in bugtrack tickets for those packages, but I am more interested in a general solution, for all packages that have binary symlinks.
So, shouldn't there be something in respect of this issue in the packaging policy?
I support that (or the more or less AFAIK equivalent 'echo ".so man1/wodim.1"
cdrecord.1' approach as an alternative to symlinks). Could you write a
draft for that? I can take it onwards from there in the packaging committee.
I would suggest creating a cdrecord(1) man page that says "This is no more. See wodim(1), which replaces it." Put that cdrecord(1) man page into the wodim package. This way, we teach people that there's been a change and we don't get "Um, when I type 'man cdrecord' I get a man page for something totally different; what gives?" kinds of questions/bug reports/requests.
If they read the man they would note that:
NOTE There may be similarities and differences between this program and other disk recording application(s). See the CREDITS and AUTHORS sec- tions below to learn about the origin of wodim.
And later that:
This application is a spinoff from the original program "cdrecord" delivered in the cdrtools package [1] created by Joerg Schilling, who deserves the most credits for its success. However, he is not involved into the development of this spinoff and therefore he shall not be made responsible for any problem caused by it. Do not refer to this applica- tion as "cdrecord", do not try to get support for wodim by contacting the original authors.
So, better would be to teach users to read the manual.
This is obviously IMHO.
Lamont Peterson lamont@gurulabs.com Senior Instructor Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ]
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