From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 7034 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2020 13:42:39 -0000 Received: from alyss.skarnet.org (95.142.172.232) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 9 Sep 2020 13:42:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 25155 invoked by uid 89); 9 Sep 2020 13:43:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm Sender: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Received: (qmail 25148 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2020 13:43:03 -0000 From: "Laurent Bercot" To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Subject: Re: s6-man-pages update Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2020 13:42:36 +0000 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Reply-To: "Laurent Bercot" User-Agent: eM_Client/8.0.3385.0 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-VR-SPAMSTATE: OK X-VR-SPAMSCORE: 0 X-VR-SPAMCAUSE: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgeduiedrudehhedgieegucetufdoteggodftvfcurfhrohhfihhlvgemucfpfgfogfftkfevteeunffgpdfqfgfvnecuuegrihhlohhuthemuceftddtnecunecujfgurhephffvufffkfgjfhhrfgggtgfgsehtqhertddtreejnecuhfhrohhmpedfnfgruhhrvghnthcuuegvrhgtohhtfdcuoehskhgrqdhsuhhpvghrvhhishhiohhnsehskhgrrhhnvghtrdhorhhgqeenucggtffrrghtthgvrhhnpedvgfevffeuleegvdektdffteegvdeiieefkeetgfeuheffheelheejhfevueeijeenucevlhhushhtvghrufhiiigvpedtnecurfgrrhgrmhepmhhouggvpehsmhhtphhouhht >Do you think it would make sense to include the man pages in tarball >releases of s6 software? It would help with packaging efforts across >distros, I think. Only downside would be that, since you dislike the mdoc >format, any changes to the man pages would have to be coordinated and >finished by others before you made a release, if the plan is to keep >everything consistent. That downside is simply too big, and also, I don't want to take responsibility in the official tarballs for content that I don't audit myself. I don't think it would be a good trade-off, even for users. (And that does not mean I don't trust Alexis, or other people in the community, to do good work! If I didn't, we wouldn't even be talking about this.) What limits packaging efforts across distros is not the number of packages or where and how to find them; if a distribution has a link to get the man pages source, they will use it and will just be happy that there are man pages. What limits packaging efforts, currently, is only the willingness of distributions to understand and use s6. -- Laurent