On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Simon Paillard <spaill...@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/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
