tags 555936 fixed-upstream thanks This was fixed in upstream 3.08.
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Norman Ramsey <n...@cs.tufts.edu> wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 3.05-1 > Severity: normal > > The man page for strsignal(3) claims that the function is not part of > any standard. Actually the function is part of the POSIX standard, > as of 2008. See > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/strsignal.html > > This means among other things that it should be possible to get the > function without > > #define _GNU_SOURCE > > as described on the man page. > > I'm reporting this as 'normal' rather than 'minor' because it's > valuable for users to know when their code is portable to a POSIX > system. I'm reporting to Debian rather than upstream because > upstream says that glibc bugs as part of a Linux distribution should > be reported to that distribution. > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 5.0.3 > APT prefers stable > APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Versions of packages manpages-dev depends on: > ii manpages 3.05-1 Manual pages about using a > GNU/Lin > > manpages-dev recommends no packages. > > Versions of packages manpages-dev suggests: > ii konqueror [man-browser] 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6 KDE's advanced file manager, web > b > ii man-db [man-browser] 2.5.2-4 on-line manual pager > > -- no debconf information > > > > -- 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
