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Re: Developers who write Debian GNU/Linux when they mean Debian.



Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es> writes:

> Perhaps it'd be a good idea to start modifying undocumented(7) to tell
> the manpage creators to avoid the mentioned phrase.

undocumented(7) is for users, not maintainers.  

> Would a wishlist bug on 'manpages' be Ok?

Sure.

> btw, the manpages' package in general is extremely linuxoid..
> refers to manpages for the 'Linux' system and probably most
> of its contents are plenty of references to Linux.
>
> In particular, hd(4) and sd(4) are completely out-of-context
> in a GNU/HURD system.

Yeah, filing bugs on these would be useful.

> IMHO the best thing for manpages would be to have a
> linux-all package and a separate hurd-all package,
> with Architecture: all and using a Kernel: tag altogether.
> See dpkg wishlist #118910

Perhaps that's a good idea.  Dunno.



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