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#use wml::templ::template title="Man page" author="Martin Michlmayr"
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<P>As per Debian's Policy, every executable file in Debian has to
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supply a man page. However, many packages don't follow this
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requirement yet. Below is a listing of all executables for which no
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corresponding man page is available yet. If you use any of these
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packages listed below, please consider writing a man page for its
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executable files and submit it to the
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<A HREF = "http://bugs.debian.org">Bug Tracking System</A> (BTS).
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<P>Writing man pages is not very difficult. You can simply look at
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some man pages in /usr/share/man and follow their structure (also see the
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file /usr/share/doc/man-db/examples/manpage.example). Furthermore, some
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information about the format of man pages is available
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in the man page of
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<A HREF = "http://Linux.com.hk/man/showman.cgi?url=http://linux.com.hk/man/man7/man.7.inc">man</A>
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(man 7 man) and
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<A HREF = "http://www.perl.com/pub/doc/manual/html/utils/pod2man.html">pod2man</A>
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(man 1 pod2man). Finally, you can also install the package help2man (man
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help2man) which is an automatic manpage generator.
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<P>When you decide to help out, please write the man pages for a whole
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package. Send e-mail to man-pages@qa.debian.org and tell us which
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package you are working on. We can then add you to this web site so other
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people know that someone is working on that particular package already.
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<P>When you have written a man page, please let us know at
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man-pages@qa.debian.org and submit the man page to the BTS.
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If you have written a man page for the executable file <I>foobar</I>
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in the package <I>bar</I>, you would send a bug report like this:
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<PRE>
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To: submit@bugs.debian.org
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Subject: man page for foobar
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Package: bar
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Tags: patch
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<attach foobar.1 here>
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</PRE>
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<:
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$missing = 0;
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open(LINTIAN, "/org/qa.debian.org/data/lintian.txt") || die "Cannot open lintian report";
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while(<LINTIAN>) {
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(undef, $package, $error) = split(/: /);
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if ($error =~ /^(link-to-undocumented-manpage|binary-without-manpage)/) {
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(undef, $file) = split(/ /, $error);
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push(@{$man{$package}}, $file);
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$missing++;
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}
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}
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close(LINTIAN);
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$in_work = 0;
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open(HELPERS, "/org/qa.debian.org/data/man-page-help.txt") || die "Cannot open helpers file";
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while($package = <HELPERS>) {
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chomp($package);
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$who = <HELPERS>;
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$who =~ s/\<.+\>//;
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chomp($who);
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$who =~ s/\s+$//;
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<HELPERS>; # ignore starting date
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$worked_on{$package} = $who;
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$in_work += $#{$man{$package}} + 1;
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}
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close(HELPERS);
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printf "<P>In total $missing man pages are missing at the moment. ";
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printf scalar(keys %worked_on);
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printf " packages ($in_work man pages) are being worked on.</P>\n";
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foreach $package (sort keys %man) {
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printf "<H2><A HREF = \"http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=$package&searchon=names&version=unstable&release=all\">$package</A></H2>";
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if (exists($worked_on{$package})) {
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printf "<PRE>\n";
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printf ($worked_on{$package} . " is working on this package\n");
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printf "</PRE>\n";
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}
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printf " <UL>\n";
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foreach (@{$man{$package}}) {
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s/\.gz$//;
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s#.*/##;
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printf " <LI>$_\n";
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}
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printf " </UL>\n";
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}
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