Re: maint: Distribute help2man script.

Erik Auerswald <[email protected]> Sat, 19 Apr 2025 13:33:39 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.inetutils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 12:30:44PM +0200, Simon Josefsson via Bug reports for the GNU Internet utilities wrote:
> Collin Funk <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > The CI for Inetutils fails to build on OpenBSD [1] since this platform
> > does not have a help2man package.
> > [...]
> 
> We should prominently document the build/runtime dependencies, maybe
> using a DEPENDENCIES file like Bruno does in some projects (which I
> recently started to use in libidn too).  If we don't mention help2man
> already.

It is listed under the heading "Prerequisites" in README-alpha.

Br,
Erik
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