Hi,

The update replaced devhelp with manuals. manuals isn't a replacement as
it lacks the `-s` (search) and `-a` (assistant) options.

Would be great if it grow into a full replacement (and also pick up
devhelp's speed, loading is significatnly slower).

Cheers,
 -- Guido

It's interesting that you say that since the upstream developer is
also the sysprof developer and has done significant performance work
on other projects like ptyxis. "Loading" has multiple meanings; which
part of the app is slow?

By the time you filed this bug, devhelp was already archived upstream
and removed from Debian Unstable, so it's not coming back to Debian.

Similar to many teams in Debian, the Debian GNOME team is small and
doesn't have the extra capacity to work on upstream feature requests.
Therefore, we generally close this kind of bug since this team is
unable to manage the few thousand open bugs we have.

Unfortunately, the upstream developer has limited capacity for working
on features currently, but you could still try filing bugs there.
https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2026/05/14/a-small-update-from-france/

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/manuals/-/work_items

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha

Hi Jeremy,

Time from hitting <return> in the shell to launch the command until
the search bar accepts input.

I'm using devhelp from snapshots.d.o now.

Cheers,
 -- Guido