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Re: FYI: Generate bison.1


From: Joel E. Denny
Subject: Re: FYI: Generate bison.1
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 20:00:56 -0500 (EST)

On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Akim Demaille wrote:

> I suppose we should produce some yacc.1, but should it be:
> 
> - a stub that says that this is bison -y, read bison(1)
> 
> - be a copy of bison.1 with the precision that this is
>   bison -y.
> 
> - be a copy of bison.1 (with s/bison/yacc/, which is, btw,
>   not done in yacc --help).
> 
> I think 1 or 2 are ok.

I'd prefer 1, but I'm fine with 2 also.

> Another question is whether we leave bison.1 in the repository.
> I left it there, so that we don't require help2man from maintainers
> (it is called via missing).

It seems fine to me to require help2man for maintainers.  Maintainers 
should expect that they might need to update the --help output on occasion 
anyway.




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