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Re: [ITP] yasm -- a complete rewrite of the NASM assembler
On 2012-10-08 19:42, David Stacey wrote:
| On 08/10/12 10:23, Jari Aalto wrote:
| >On 2012-10-07 22:01, David Stacey wrote:
| >|
| >| yasm...
| >
| >Builds ok, GTG. It would be nice to also to have manual pages[*] for
| >all binaries. These don't have one:
| >
| > usr/bin/vsyasm.exe
| > usr/bin/ytasm.exe
| >
| >Jari
| >
| >[*] FYI Debian includes manual pages for those and they are freely
| >dstributable. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/yasm
|
| The man page is extremely minimalistic...
However minimalistic, everyone want's to access help with:
man <command>
| ...if he would submit it to
| the yasm developers. Then all distributions of yasm would benefit.
He may already have. But waiting upstream may not always be the best
strategy for users[1]
You could also ping upstream. The more contacts, the merrier.
I would just copy the pages from Debian and in a dark, rainy autum
day, nothing else to do, improve them together.
Jari
[1] Given yasm's track record for releases, progress is slow.
The same Debian developer has maintained the package since 2006, so he
may have been in contact already.
http://packages.qa.debian.org/y/yasm.html