Package: manpages Version: 4.16-2 Severity: normal In #847998 we removed the tmpfs(5) manpage because it conflicted with the initscripts. But now, we have systems that are installed, by default, without that package, which means we don't have a tmpfs(5) manpage at all!
That's quite unfortunate, and I believe it should be fixed. In #847998 it was agreed that the conflict should be somehow resolved. I filed a bug against initscripts (#951596) so that they just remove their version of the manpage. My argument is that initscripts can use the normal tmpfs(5) syntax (from fstab, not /etc/default) now so there doesn't need to be special configuration for that. And if there should be, I believe it is reasonable that it sits in a different manpage, since we can definitely use tmpfs without any init system at all: it's part of the kernel, after all. (Well, Linux needs *some* init system, but the point I'm making here is that you can use tmpfs(5) with init=/bin/sh.) So I'm opening this bug in manpages so we restore this manpage, but it shouldn't be done until initscripts removes theirs, naturally. -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.3 APT prefers stable-debug APT policy: (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled manpages depends on no packages. manpages recommends no packages. Versions of packages manpages suggests: ii man-db [man-browser] 2.8.5-2 -- no debconf information
