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Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic)

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Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> writes:

> I the recent thread about returning a Debian installation to its
> original state "popularity-contest" was mentioned.
>
> I wished to compare it to other tools mentioned in that thread.
> Obvious stating point -- read the man page.
> As I never installed its package I went to
> https://manpages.debian.org/buster/popularity-contest/popularity-contest.8.en.html
> .
>
> It did not explicitly answer my question.
> However, under "SEE ALSO" it stated:
>> Additional documentation is in /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/.
>
> *PROBLEM*
> As package is not installed, that directory does *NOT* exist.
>
> Where to find required documentation on the web?
>
> NOTE BENE
> This post is about man pages as a class.

Asking for a man page to include all of the documentation about a
package isn't reasonable -- there are man pages like that (bash comes to
mind), and it isn't a page, it's a book.  A man page tries to be a
succinct summary, so someone can look up details about running a program,
or about a file format, in a hurry.

If you want the full documentation on something you haven't installed,
the man page is the wrong place to look.  Googling 'debian
popularity-contest' (instead of looking specifically for the man page)
points me to
https://salsa.debian.org/popularity-contest-team/popularity-contest#:~:text=The%20popularity%2Dcontest%20package%20sets,go%20on%20the%20first%20CD.
which has a wealth of information.

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Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-05-30 12:00 +0200
  Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-05-30 13:00 +0200
    Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-05-30 15:40 +0200
  Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-05-30 15:50 +0200
    Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-05-30 16:20 +0200
  Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-05-30 16:20 +0200
    Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-05-30 17:00 +0200
      Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-05-30 17:10 +0200
        Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-05-30 23:10 +0200
          Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-06-01 09:00 +0200
          Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-02 13:20 +0200
            Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-06-02 16:40 +0200
            Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-06-02 17:10 +0200
  Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-05-30 16:50 +0200
  Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2020-06-01 23:20 +0200
    Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-02 00:10 +0200
      Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Bob Weber <bobrweber@gmail.com> - 2020-06-02 00:30 +0200
      Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-06-02 01:00 +0200
      Something is buggy - was [Re: Debian man pages have annoying  feature(sic)] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-02 15:10 +0200
        Re: Something is buggy - was [Re: Debian man pages have annoying  feature(sic)] The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-06-02 15:50 +0200
          Re: Something is buggy - was [Re: Debian man pages have annoying  feature(sic)] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-02 17:50 +0200
            Re: Something is buggy - was [Re: Debian man pages have annoying  feature(sic)] Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-06-03 07:30 +0200
        Re: Something is buggy - was [Re: Debian man pages have annoying  feature(sic)] l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-06-02 16:30 +0200
  [CLARIFICATION] Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-02 12:40 +0200
    Re: [CLARIFICATION] Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-06-02 14:40 +0200
  Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2020-06-02 16:40 +0200

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