Bug#665303: libc-bin: getent.1 from (linux-)manpages
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:38:45PM +0100, Simon Paillard wrote:
>> Package: libc-bin
>> Version: 2.13-27
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> In upstream linux-manpages 3.37 (hopefully soon in Debian), a getent.1 manpage
>> is now provided:
>> http://people.debian.org/~spaillard/getent_man/getent.1.linux-man
>
>> Compared to the Debian one:
>> http://people.debian.org/~spaillard/getent_man/getent.1.libc-bin
>>
>> I think we can reasonably tell the linux-manpages' version provides more
>> details.
>>
>> A replace will be used so that the getent.1 from manpages is used.
>>
>> Do you agree with that ?
>> Once manpages 3.37 uploaded, can you stop installing getent.1 in the future ?
>
> Do you have a position regarding this request ?
>
> I understand from linux-man mailing list that people from libc are now working
> with Michael Kerrisk to move content to linux-man.
I think that last sentence probably overstates things. The libc folk
seem divided about how much they want to cooperate with man-pages.
Some are warm to the idea of direct contribution to man-pages, others
are not so much. What actually will happen is yet to be seen.
Cheers,
Michael
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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