Re: url's in --help output

[Karl Berry]

    I really like seeing the <> around URLs in a text format; 

I hate it, but we've already concluded we're doing it, so fine :).

I've never had trouble understanding whether a trailing period in text
is part of the url (it isn't), and the simple software I use
(browse-url-at-point, basically) doesn't either.

    I'm undecided about whether we should use <> around the email
    address, or just the URLs 

So far we seem to be concluding no <> around email addresses.
Unless there are strenous objections to that, let's go with that.

    (but a third option, using "<mailto:"; and
    ">" as a form of URL, doesn't look as nice to me as the first two).

Agreed.

    What will it take to get these modifications back upstream, so that
    everyone can benefit from a new release of help2man?

I pinged Brendan (help2man maintainer, bod at debian) fairly recently
about making a new release (GPLv3 etc.), and he kinda sorta said he
would.  So this could be an opportune time to send him changes.