Bug#1122633: exiftool.1p: Some remarks and a patch with editorial changes for this man page

[gregor herrmann]

On Sat, 13 Dec 2025 11:41:40 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:

>gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> writes:
>> If there is a problem in the created manpage, that needs to be addressed
>> in the relevant tools, which are pod2man/Pod::Man in the case of Perl
>> documentation in POD format.
>For the record, as Pod::Man maintainer I'm not really interested in these
>bug reports either. Bjarni has found some actual bugs in the *roff
>generation in the past, but most of their bug reports are about things
>like trailing whitespace that seem like a waste of everyone's time to me.
>The occasional real bug report is useful, but the signal to noise ratio is
>bad enough that I'd want to see some more dedication to understanding what
>sorts of problems matter.

Thanks Russ for adding your perspective!


Cheers,
gregor

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