Opened 5 years ago
Closed 3 years ago
#13582 closed Bug Report - General (Trac EOL)
Manual pages look messy
| Reported by: | Jarno Suni | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | needs_triage |
| Component: | Documentation | Version: | v30-fixes |
| Severity: | medium | Keywords: | manual page |
| Cc: | Ticket locked: | no |
Description
I do not know, how manual pages have been created for mythtv commands, but they could be created automatically by help2man, if --help and --version options were implemented properly according to GNU guidelines. For example, --help should output to stdout, not to stderr:
https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/_002d_002dversion.html https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/_002d_002dhelp.html See also https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/#g_t_002d_002dhelp-recommendations https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/#Makefile-usage
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