On Wed, 23.04.14 07:42, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) (mtk.manpa...@gmail.com) wrote:
> On 04/21/2014 05:01 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 03:39:20PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > >> On 04/21/2014 10:04 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > >>> [Roger Leigh] > >>>> Sorry, I've not done anything on this lately--I'm not too active in > >>>> Debian at present due to RSI and other reasons. Petter, would you > >>>> possibly be able to look into this on the sysvinit side? > >>> > >>> As far as I can see from <URL: https://bugs.debian.org/669866 >, the > >>> upstream manpages maintainer is waiting for copyright information for > >>> the hostname.5 file. This can only be provide by the authors, and > >>> nothing I can do from the sysvinit side. > >> > >> > >> Exactly. The page text says it was written by Lennart P and Roger. If > >> they're both agreeable, and have a license, then I'd take the page. > > > > For my part, I'm happy for my contributions to this page to be licensed > > under whatever DFSG-free licence you use for the manpages. > > Hi Lennart, > > See https://bugs.debian.org/669866. > > Roger Leigh has made a proposal that the hostname(5) page should be > upstreamed into man-pages. This makes some sense to me, since > /etc/hostname is a standard system file (like /etc/paasswwd, > /etc/group, etc.), and most of those are documented by man-pages. > > It appears that the page is currently distributed by both Debian and > as part of systemd, and the version referred top in the bug is noted > as being written by you and Roger. What do you think of passing this > page to man-pages? Does it make sense? I don't mind if the man page is added to the manpages package under any license you like, but do note that /etc/hostname is a Debianism, which we added to systemd and thus is now supported by the union of Debian-derived distributions and those which adopted systemd. I am not sure what the rules regarding what belongs in the manpages package is, but I have the suspicion that at least Slackware and Gentoo don't have this file. Also, in the systemd context the man page refers to "hostnamectl(1)" which doesn't exist outside of systemd, and we make stricter recommendations on the hostname to store in /etc/hostname than debian probably traditionally made. How does the Debian version of the man page look like? Is it available online? How would the version you'd add to the manpages package look like? The systemd version you find here: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/hostname.html Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
