Bug#556173: libc-bin: introduces custom manual pages: locale.1 in manpages pkg

[Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 08:25:01PM +0200, Simon Paillard wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 09:34:00AM -0600, Adam Conrad wrote:
> > To be fair, I wouldn't mind if you took *all* the manpages from
> > libc* and we dropped the whole lot.  That way, you could submit
> > them upstream at your leisure, and we could be free of worrying
> > about them entirely.

manpages-linux upstream introduced a locale.1 in man-pages-3.62, and may be
provided in 3.64 upload in Debian.

http://people.debian.org/~spaillard/libc-or-manpages/locale.1.libc-bin
http://people.debian.org/~spaillard/libc-or-manpages/locale.1.manpages-linux

Can you confirm it is possible to move locale.1 to manpages with a replace <<
2.18-4 ?

> > Either way, let's coordinate what you want to take over today,
> > and I'll make it happen for the next upload which will, I think,
> > give you a Replaces of << 2.17-91, though I need to sort that
> > with our BSD porter(s) first before we settle on that.
> 
> As discussed on IRC, manpages 3.52-1 will take over:
> ldd.1 ldconfig.8 ld.so.8 gai.conf.5 zic.8 zdump.8
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/manpages.git;a=commitdiff;h=ca35fc2b39f98db9a3e291779c3270eaaef019d3
> 
> nscd.conf.5 and nscd.8 have many differences upstream vs debian, and will be
> sorted out for the next release.

Not done, but nscd.* debian manpages are under public domain, so it should be
easy to get them integrated to manpages-linux.

-- 
Simon Paillard