Re: bin/45980: Manual file indexing no longer supports compressed manual pages

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/45980; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>
To: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/45980: Manual file indexing no longer supports compressed
 manual pages
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:12:31 +0000

 On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 01:55:01PM +0000, Martin Husemann wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR bin/45980; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: bin/45980: Manual file indexing no longer supports compressed 
 > manual pages
 > Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:50:55 +0100
 > 
 >  I would consider both a missing .Nm or .Nd a bug in the man page which we
 >  should fix.
 
 I agree that this shouldn't be the case in a well formed manual page.
 However there are too many manual pages like that in existence and
 fixing all of them is IMHO furtile.
 
 A good engineering pratice say "Be strict in what you send, but generous
 in what you receive". We should make sure that our manual pages are
 well structure but still accept those which are not.
 
        Kind regards
 
 -- 
 Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/