Re: Are Debian online manpages down?
Richard Owlett composed on 2016-08-12 02:49 (UTC-0500):
Simply googling any specific man page WFM for components and
utilities that aren't specific to Debian.
I explicitly wanted the Debian version.
What doesn't exist can't be gotten. IOW, if any given man page is not
specific to Debian, which is the case more often than not, as long as the
package versions match, the man page provided by any specific Debian release
is the same man page provided by any other distro. Most of what any distro is
doing packaging, taking the source, building, and putting it into the
distro's package management system. For man pages, Debian packaging means
copying word for word from the source package into a .deb package. What
differentiates among distros is primarily their package management systems,
release scheduling and naming, and policies about choosing which programs and
versions are to be provided. See e.g.
http://linux.die.net/man/1/ddrescue
http://linux.die.net/man/1/diff
http://linux.die.net/man/1/mc
http://linux.die.net/man/1/rsync
http://linux.die.net/man/8/traceroute
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