Bug#792625: multiarch = same and different date-entries in generated man page of i32/i64

[David Bremner]

Roelof Berg <rberg at berg-solutions.de> writes:

> I had a look at the idea of writing manpages manually (as upstream) and 
> unfortunately saw some difficulties: Because OpenBSD and Linux use 
> different *roff syntax, man vs. mdoc, if I understodd it correctly, 
> generating the man pages in the syntax of the actual operating system 
> would be the most  portable way (everyone: correct me if I'm wrong). I 
> don't want to favor Linux or BSD or Windows (just kidding :) in the 
> source tarball.

Many people use some higher-level / more-recent markup language like
rst, markdown, or POD. This adds another build-dependency, but means
that it's the responsibility of translator (e.g. rst2man, pod2man) to
generate appropriate roff.

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