Bug#556173: libc-bin: introduces custom manual pages
Package: libc-bin
Version: 2.10.1-5
Severity: wishlist
The Debian glibc package introduces a number of custom manual pages
which are not in any kind of upstream and thus cannot be shared with
the rest of Linux community, which is quite unfortunate, since it
reduces usability of other Linux distributions but also reduces quality
of the documentation since less people see it and work on it.
While upstream glibc does not maintain any manual pages, the
linux-man-pages projects collects all kind of Linux-related manual
pages, including glibc-specific manual pages not only on the API, but
also on tools (like ldd). It would be great if the Debian-specific
manual pages could be submitted there for review and inclusion.
For some manual pages that _are_ upstream, e.g. ldd.1, the upstream
version is more up-to-date than the version currently included; this
should also demonstrate the value of taking these manpages from
upstream. :)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
-- no debconf information
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