#1145657 ITP: gohelp2man -- Generate a man page out of a Go program's -help output

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2026-08-26 11:02:38 UTC
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* Package name    : gohelp2man
  Version         : 0.7.0-1
  Upstream Author : Nicolas Peugnet
* URL             : https://github.com/n-peugnet/gohelp2man
* License         : GPL-2.0+
  Programming Lang: Go
  Description     : Generate a man page out of a Go program's -help output

 Go has a simple but very effective "flag" package that can be used to
 quickly create CLI applications without any additional dependencies. But
 this package cannot generate man pages.
 .
 gohelp2man takes inspiration from GNU help2man , and generates a man page
 from the -help output of your Go program. It is specifically designed to
 recognise the help message generated by the "flag" package.

I made this tool to generate good quality manual pages for simple Go programs
that only use the "flag" package from the standard library, and I am already
using it to generate the manual pages in a few Debian packages, so it would
be good to have it directly available in Debian.