Re: Bug#519781: manpages-dev: does not install pthread_* manpages (Re: LinuxThreads manual pages)

[Joey Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 05:30:47AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > Hi Joey,
> > 
> > Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > 
> > >>>  - The pages in man-pages are usable and maintained, and I think we should
> > >>>    ship them.  This requires coordination between the two packages.
> > >>>    Actually, manpages-dev should be changed first (with Replaces: glibc-doc,
> > >>>    this requires no action by the glibc maintainers).
> > 
> > Any thoughts on this?  Would you be more comfortable with a versioned
> > Replaces: (which requires a little more coordination with glibc
> > maintainers), or is there anything else I can do to help make this
> > happen?
> > 
> > In particular, if the problem is lack of time, I would be glad to work
> > on finding a DD willing to sponsor staging this in experimental so we
> > could try out both changes (manpages-dev, glibc-doc).
> > 
> 
> There is no need to go through experimental. Once the change is done on
> manpages-dev, we can upload a fixed glibc-doc. A Replaces: is the way to
> go.

I'll include pthread manpages in the next upload again.

Regards,

	Joey

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