Sam Hartman wrote: > What is wrong with the current state? > .k5login is a dotfile in the user's directory. > apropos finds the man page. > What do you believe is wrong? Presumably that there is a leading . and > so the man page does not show up in ls. > > Is there some policy about how man pages for dotfiles are named? > Why is this bad?
Initially I thought it is a mistake but since it's deliberate - well, .k5login is the only man page in the whole system starting with a dot (.). It makes it counter-intuitive when one simply uses: % man file_name or command/file auto-completion, since all other dotfiles - even when they're not used anywhere else, e.g. in /etc or a sub-folder but directly in users home directory - have their man pages accessed simply by their name, without the leading dot. I am unaware of any naming convention for man pages for dot files. Two reasons I can think of right now are mentioned above. 1. Counter-intuitive. 2. Consistency. Regards, -- Raf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
