Closed gpxlnx closed 1 year ago
@gpxlnx hello, that's pretty nice you're packaging it for Debian, thanks a lot for that!
The manpage looks good however I would change the following:
The links could be added to an ABOUT
section for example:
ABOUT
More information can be found on dotdrop repository at https://github.com/deadc0de6/dotdrop and in the main documentation at https://dotdrop.readthedocs.io
What do you think?
Hello,
Thanks for the feedback. It will be a pleasure to bring your package to Debian and derivatives.
As for your suggestions, they can be done as suggested.
As per Debian policy you can incorporate this manpage into your source code. It is free and will follow the license you choose.
Would it be possible to include this manpage in the package source? This is necessary because otherwise I would have to create a patch in the package for it to be installed.
Best
Sure, I'll refactor and add the manpage to the source. I'll then publish a new version of dotdrop with the manpage
manpage/dotdrop.txt
: the source for txt2man
manpage/dotdrop.1.ex
: nroff manpage generated from manpage/dotdrop.txt
I'll ping you when the new version is out. Thanks again for your help
Hi,
Good news, this is very cool.
As I said earlier, you can change the proposed information, generate the new manual page and insert it into your code if you wish.
We only need the dotdrop.1 file
If you want to use txt2man to do this, here is a small command used to generate this page.
Ex. txt2man -d "22 December 2022" -t dotdrop -r dotdrop-1.12.2 -s 1 -v "Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere" dotdrop.txt > dotdrop.1
Thanks a lot for your help!
I have created a manpage attempt on the manpage branch.
Could you give it a look and let me know if that's good enough for a Debian package? I'm not sure how to use hyperlinks with txt2man
but besides that I tried to stick to common manpages usages.
Hello,
Its manpage is very well done and according to Debian standards.
I believe you can proceed with the merge and add the dotdrop.1 file to your project.
Congratulations and thanks for the help!!!
@gpxlnx version 1.12.3 has been released with its manpage:
https://github.com/deadc0de6/dotdrop/tree/master/manpage
Thanks again for your help on this and for creating a debian package for dotdrop :+1:
Hello,
Congratulations on your work on dotdrop. I'm packaging it for Debian and derivatives and would like to suggest a manual for the program.
I am sending the current version along with the source code for your analysis and changes if necessary.
This manual was generated using the txt2man program.
thank you for your attention