On Monday, 19 February 2024 11:32:23 CET Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Actually it feels like user engagement. Listening to what your user
community wants is good policy. You may disagree with the specific
request, in which case feel free to explain why rather than dismissing
someone for asking.
What makes you think that we don't listen?
Everybody agrees with you, it would be nice to have the man pages. Just as
*you* don't implement it, our time/energy/resources are limited and likely
better allocated elsewhere and, thus, commented that help is welcome.
If you don't have a patch, I can suggest you to open a ticket upstream
requesting the inclusion of the man page :-)
No, I'd rather there was a policy of requiring man pages, along with
the other policies regarding what is accepted in Fedora.
There *is* a policy:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_manpages
. It just happens to not be a mandatory thing ;-)
From the review guidelines
(
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/ReviewGuidelines/)
SHOULD: your package should contain man pages for binaries/scripts.
If it
doesn’t, work with upstream to add them where they make sense.footnote