The man pages are created from restructuredText files (extension .rst).  So
please do not edit the man pages (extension .1).  Edit the rst files instead an
call

    rst2man xxx.1.rst > xxx.1

rst2man is part of the package python3-docutils.

The .1 file are included for convenience into the repository.  They may be
removed someday, possiby along with this README file.