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Re: Should we remove those man pages from CVS?
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:16:29PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> >Can we go back to the real manpages then? Good manpages are important to
> >BSD, and I do not think the conversion script is ready for prime time.
> >I know the GNU project despises manpages, but they are a fact of UNIX life.
>
> I agree the autogenerated manpages leave something to be desired. In many
> ways though they are better than the old versions. Let's not go back to the
> old ones just yet -- that should be a last resort if the results of the
> automatic conversion haven't improved sufficiently by the time we want to do
> a release.
I just noticed that objcopy.1 in 2.11.[12] is the POD generated version.
Can we agree to not commit the POD versions to the 2.11 branch?
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)