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created recipe for lua5.1-mpack 1.0.9
author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Sat Feb 25 07:18:33 2023 +0100 (20 months ago) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/help2man/description.txt Sat Feb 25 07:18:33 2023 +0100 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ 1.4 +Help2man is a tool for automatically generating simple manual pages 1.5 +from program output. 1.6 + 1.7 +Although manual pages are optional for GNU programs other projects, 1.8 +such as Debian require them (see Man Pages in GNU Coding Standards). 1.9 + 1.10 +This program is intended to provide an easy way for software authors 1.11 +to include a manual page in their distribution without having to 1.12 +maintain that document. 1.13 + 1.14 +Given a program which produces reasonably standard "--help" and 1.15 +"--version" outputs, help2man can re-arrange that output into 1.16 +something which resembles a manual page.