[parted-devel] help2man

David Cantrell dcantrell at redhat.com
Mon Jan 15 16:33:30 CET 2007


Debarshi Ray wrote:
> Are we using help2man for keeping the --help output and manual page
> synchronized? If not, then can we start using it?

No, we're not.  I'd prefer that we not automate something like that as 
there's really no good way to unit test man pages.  Documentation should 
be constructed by hand and verified by a person.

Related to this, I'd like to remove the dependency on po4a in parted. 
Is anyone opposed to this?

-- 
David Cantrell
Red Hat / Westford, MA



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