[PATCH 3/5] nmbug-status: Add an nmbug-status(5) man page

David Bremner david at tethera.net
Thu Dec 31 09:39:21 PST 2015


Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org> writes:

> On Wed, 30 Dec 2015, "W. Trevor King" <wking at tremily.us> wrote:
>> To describe the config file format, so folks don't have to dig through
>> NEWS or the nmbug-status source to get that information.
>
> Overall I approve of the series (though I did not do a thorough
> review).
>
> I am wondering about the man page though. I find it slightly confusing
> there would be a man page named after the tool describing just the
> config, but not the tool itself.

For me it's a bit odd to have a man page for a tool we don't install by
default. Is it maybe time to "promote" nmbug-status to the notmuch-
namespace and install it by default? That would have to be somehow tied
to installing the python bindings; or else the script could just print a
helpful error message if the bindings are not found.

This would also allow addressing Tomi's comment about testing, by adding
a couple of tests to the test suite.

d


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