Reviving this thread as I have a need for shipping man-pages with microovn.
The microovn snap is built from among other things the Open vSwitch (OVS) and Open Virtual Network (OVN) projects.
These projects provide detailed reference documentation as system manual pages distributed with the project.
I have heard from a colleague in the HPC team that they would also be interested in man-pages cc @nuccitheboss.
For fun I made an attempt at shipping the requirements with the snap, but I fear the people who want to read those pages will have a hard time finding the command regardless of how well it is documented.
Other things I’m contemplating is to request permission to write to /etc/manpath.config through the system-files interface or ~/.manpath through the personal-files interface but that also does not feel great.
It feels very much like infrastructure that snapd and snapcraft ought to provide?