On Tue, 2024-02-20 at 16:10 +0100, Marc Deop i Argemí wrote:
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?
Maybe you saying that me asking for something "sounded like
entitlement".
[...]
>
> 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/ReviewGuid
elines/)
> 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
It's my impression that the apps least likely to have man pages are the
KDE ones. Could it be that the KDE Project doesn't place much emphasis
on this? (That's a genuine question, not a rhetorical barb).
poc