role="package">doc-base</systemitem> package documentation for more
information.
</para>
+<para>
+Debian policy (section 12.1) directs that manual pages should accompany every
+program, utility, and function, and suggests them for other objects like
+configuration files. If the work you are packaging does not have such manual
+pages, consider writing them for inclusion in your package, and submitting them
+upstream.
+</para>
+<para>
+The manpages do not need to be written directly in the troff format. Popular
+source formats are Docbook, POD and reST, which can be converted using
+<command>xsltproc</command>, <command>pod2man</command> and
+<command>rst2man</command> respectively. To a lesser extent, the <command>
+help2man</command>program can also be used to write a stub.
+</para>
</section>
<section id="bpp-other">
<smcv@debian.org> for the patches:
- point to official names {ftp,ssh}.upload.debian.org. Closes: #554054
- drop references to non-working queues. Closes: #554077
+ * Mention docbook, POD and reST as convenient formats to write new manual
+ pages. Thanks to Charles Plessy and the debian-mentors list
+ for the idea and the patch. Closes: #557298
-- Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:49:40 +0900