man 7 undocumented

Martin Peeks martinp23 at googlemail.com
Mon May 28 01:52:34 BST 2007


Taking a look at some of the manpages, I noticed that "man 7
undocumented", which is suggested whenever a user tries to view the
man pages where a package doesn't have them, suggests the Debian
bugtracker/lists.  I was wondering what everyone's thoughts are on
changing it to point to Launchpad.

On the one hand, Debian man page updates are often extremely useful
for Ubuntu.  On the other hand, having a strange thing called "Debian"
flash up on the screen for a user who through they were using Ubuntu
might discourage the filing of reports.  Also, there may be Ubuntu
specific notes to make in the manpage for the package, so a bug in our
system forwarded upstream may be best.  YMMV - I may be talking
nonsense ;-).

Thanks



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