Hello Denis, As upstream, I periodically walk through the debian open bugs to see if there's stuff that I should try to integrate, or stuff that is obsolete, as you note here. Lately, I've had little time for such tasks -- thanks for doing this scan, and raising this bug.
Cheers, Michael On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Denis Barbier <bou...@gmail.com> wrote: > Package: manpages > Version: 3.23-1 > Severity: minor > Tags: patch > > Hi Joey, > > Several patches included in manpages_3.23-1.diff.gz are obsolete, here > is a description of these > changes: > * man3/system.3 > Contrary to the comment, the patch has been accepted upstream, and > thus the added text appears twice. > * man4/ttys.4 > This file is useless, upstream added ttyS.4 in 2.72 > * man2/FD_CLR.2 man2/FD_ISSET.2 man2/FD_SET.2 man2/FD_ZERO.2 > These files are useless, upstream added them in man3 section in 2.33 > * man2/adjtime.2 > This file is useless, upstream added adjtime.3 in 2.35 > * man2/socket.2 > Your patch can be dropped, upstream added a slightly different > version in 2.61 > * man5/networks.5 > Your patch can be dropped, upstream added a slightly different > version in 3.09 > > The included patch is an excerpt of manpages_3.23-1.diff.gz, and must > thus be reversed. > > Best regards, > > Denis > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/
