Bug#556173: Bug#564874: Bug#556173: libc-bin: introduces custom manual pages / manpages package
Hi,
Do you have a position regarding this ?
TL;DR: better manpages may be provided by manpages pkg:
http://people.debian.org/~spaillard/libc-or-manpages/
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:48:51PM +0200, Simon Paillard wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 12:34:55AM +0100, Petr Baudis wrote:
> > 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. :)
>
> On this subject, manpages-linux provides some manpages which are installed by
> manpages packages today:
> libc-bin: ldd.1|ldconfig.8|ld.so.8|gai.conf.5
>
> You can find libc-bin and manpages copy of these manpages at:
> http://people.debian.org/~spaillard/libc-or-manpages/
>
> Except ldconfig.8 which are better in libc-bin IMO, all other
> could be installed by manpages.
>
> Some per-page bugs were reported earlier:
>
> #564874 ld.so.8 an old request arrived too late for Wheezy, and ld.so by
> manpages-linux provides way more details.
>
> #665303 getent.1 has been fixed some month ago
>
> If you agree with this, the next manpages{,dev} upload will replace libc-bin
> with appropriate version, then you can drop them.
--
Simon Paillard
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