Bug#158410: libc6-dev should suggest manpages-dev
> Since the manpages for the functions in libc6-dev are in the manpages-dev
> package, it seems appropriate to flag some kind of relationship between the
> two packages.
that's wrong. the official documentation for Glibc are the info documents
in the glibc-doc package. manpages-dev is a third-party package that wasn't
written purposely for Glibc and is plenty of API incompatibilities with the
Glibc implementation.
in some cases, manpages-dev does even introduce programming bugs [1] for its
unawareness of Glibc specification.
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/152136
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Robert Millan
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