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Re: missing help2man


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: missing help2man
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:47:19 +0100 (CET)

> I'm unsure however what would be better.  Let 'missing' not
> create the output file and exit 1?  Let 'missing' create the
> output file and exit 0, so that all man pages will contain the
> `.ab' error message?

My opinion: Provide a switch to `missing' (say, `-k' or
`--keep-going', similar to the same option in `make') .  If set,
`missing' creates a dummy man page, emits a warning, and exits
successfully.  Otherwise it doesn't create the man page and exits
unsuccessfully.


    Werner




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