Re: Bug#353381: ITP: freebsd-manpages -- Manual pages for a GNU/kFreeBSD system
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- Subject: Re: Bug#353381: ITP: freebsd-manpages -- Manual pages for a GNU/kFreeBSD system
- From: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
- Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 21:08:11 +0200
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David Weinehall wrote:
> > Upstream includes non-free manpages these days, so in reality, we have
> > already forked. Further Debian-specific changes are needed to address
> > bugs such as #295211 (upstream does not document our libc/kernel
> > combination).
>
> What manpages in upstream are non-free? Do we have rewritten
> alternatives in Debian, or are those pages simply removed without
> replacement?
He's talking about manpages-posix and manpages-posix-dev which have been
removed from the manpages source package before it is processed into a
Debian package. Hence, packaged separately. More info is present in
/usr/share/doc/manpages/POSIX-MANPAGES
Regards,
Joey
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Reading is a lost art nowadays. -- Michael Weber
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