Re: [PATCH] manpages for everything

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 04:02:06AM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote:
>   desc=`$prefix/bin/$program --help | sed -n '2s/.*-- //p'`
>   $help2man -N -i debian/mangen.inc -s 1 -S FSF -n "$desc" 
> $prefix/bin/$program >$program.1

Do we need $desc/-n ?  It looks like a workaround for a limitation in help2man
(or for some oddness in mailutils output).

Btw, what will we need when we support l10n in those utils' --help output?  
LANG=C
for English manpages, plus some logic to enable each other supported language?  
Do
we have to take something into account right now?

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Robert Millan

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