I'll guess that it was #9264. @rgommers Thoughts?

@sandrotosi To be clear, you are looking for a manpage? Most to of the content looks to be available in doc/f2py/source/usage.rst

not necessarily, it's more like: it used to be there, there was no apparent reason to remove it (unless it was out-of-date and there is no easy way to keep it up-to-date instead), in Debian we like to ship manpages for command-line tools as people often prefer man <cmd> than opening a browser and find the doc, and so on.

if it's gone for good, i will simply remove the code to install it and configure it for debian

@sandrotosi The file was removed in #9264. If you have a good workaround, that is the way to go. If you need a man page, we can probably do something about that, although I cannot think of anything else for which we have a man page. I note that Fedora 27, which comes with 1.13 also has the f2py man page. We should probably do something about restoring it.

no problem for now, i commented out the steps to install that manpage: if you end up restoring it, i'll uncomment them again, if you decide not to ship a manpage, i'll remove them.

this ticket is more to understand what happened to the manpage and if its removal was intentional

We could just drop it into doc/source/f2py, or even make a doc/manpage directory. Might be worth raising the issue on the list to see what people think.

Is this something we still want to do? I'm guessing since this hasn't been brought up in a while that we don't need the manpage, and this issue can be closed.

i would still like to have a manpage associated with the tool, at least that's what we prefer in Debian to have (but it's definitely not a strong requirement)

Since we ended up dropping pdf generation, I would assume the man page generation is very low prio, especially since either:

• We use a library which does the man page generation more or less automatically (e.g. click has click-man
• We maintain it by hand (very unlikely)

For (1) I think it is essentially covered by #24552, so I'm closing this for now.