[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bug#517494: Bug#517494: bzr-buildpackage: Does not have a useful manpage

[James Westby]

On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 19:47 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Package: bzr-builddeb
> Version: 0.95
> Severity: normal
> 
> The program ‘bzr-buildpackage’ has a manpage, but it is virtually no
> use:
> 
> =====
> NAME
>         bzr-buildpackage - build a debian package from a bazaar branch
> 
> SEE ALSO
>         Please see the output of bzr-buildpackage --help, and the file
>         /usr/share/doc/bzr-builddeb/README.gz

Hi Ben,

I'm interested in why you feel providing a man page that points users
to the preferred way to get the help for the tool is a bad thing?

I could auto-generate the man page from this help text, but that's
frankly more work than I am willing to put in. bzr provides a great
help system, which I plan to improve bzr-builddeb's use of soon, and
so I would prefer that users use that.

Thanks,

James