[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#525968: cups-bsd: [PATCH] manual pages: order options alphabetically

[Jonathan Nieder]

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Hi,

Jari Aalto wrote:

> Reading manual pages whose options are alphabetically can be
> searched easily whent the forward and backward motions in the
> page are predictable. Motivation: the alpahabetical listing can
> be observed in daiy command manuals: the GNU cp(1), mv(1),
> OpenBSD ssh(1) etc. which also use a to z option ordering.

Debian CUPS maintainers: do you share this goal?

Jari: have you considered proposing this as a change for the Debian
developer's reference or Debian policy, or discussing as a mass bug
filing on debian-devel?

I am worried about the effect of so many bugs on what seems to be a
matter of taste where both ways will have their adherents (full
disclosure: I prefer options grouped by function).

See also http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/abc/

Kind regards,
Jonathan