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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)


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