On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 07:49:54AM -0400, pryzbyj wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 04:02:15PM -0400, pryzbyj wrote:
> > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 10:00:33PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> > > Justin,
> > >
> > > > Please make at least one other manual page reference a64l.3. Lacking
> > > > better ideas, I suggest strfry.3 and memfrob.3, since they are
> > > > neighbors in glibc-doc.
> > >
> > > This mention of what glibc-doc is not a compelling reason for a
> > > change. Reasons for changes need to be obvious, or well explained.
> > As I say, lacking better ideas. I'll leave this opened until I have
> > some..
> I looked at the more general problem of "manpages which are not
> referenced by other manpages". Some of these are trivial to fix, and
> others take more thought, others still are too special purpose to be
> referenced all (or I don't know enough of the obscure manpages):
> sk98lin, units, koi8-r...
>
> time { for f in `dpkg -L manpages{,-dev} |grep -o 'man[^/]*/[^/]*\.gz$'`; do
> mkdir -p $f; cd $f; zcat /usr/share/man/$f |sed -ne '/^\.SH "SEE ALSO"$/,$
> p;' |grep -Ew '^\.BR' >`basename $f`; cd ../../; done; } &
>
> time { for f in `dpkg -L manpages{,-dev} |grep '\.gz$'`; do test -L $f &&
> continue; f=`basename $f .gz |sed -re 's/\.([0-9])$/.*\1/'`; grep -iqr "$f" .
> || echo $f; done >not-referenced; }
>
> Included is a list of 143 unreferenced pages, and a patch for some.
>
> Let me know if this is useful.
Michael? Should I provide more patches of a similar type?
Justin
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