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Re: [Bug-tar] tar man page


From: Mike Frysinger
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] tar man page
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:22:38 -0400
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On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> If it is their choice to provide it, then let them provide it. Some of man
> pages I saw (those distributed with Slackware, for example)
> contain much more info than help2man would produce, and we'd do their
> users a very doubtful favor if we replace a third party man page saying
> something with our page saying nothing useful at all.

is allowing someone to maintain it for tar out of the question ?  after all, 
as you already noted, package maintainers are often already doing the 
maintenance work, but only in a place where a subset of the people out there 
benefit instead of all tar users ...
-mike

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