man pages - was: wiki vs documentation

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Lars Noodén wrote:

> I would like to see the manual pages treated as official
> documentation. At the very least, they should give a complete
> summary of the function(s) and options without pointing to third
> party materials.  Some do, some don't.  All should, because every
> end user has these pages installed on their machine so it would
> make sense to use them as the first line of support.  There are
> systems that take this approach and it works well for them so it
> could work well for Ubuntu, especially if it is coordinated
> upstream with Debian.

Where are the man pages kept?

Are they on Launchpad?

Are there guidelines for how they should be constructed?

Can any of us edit them? I wouldn't mind going to town on some of
them. (:

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Little Girl

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