On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:42:19AM +0100, David Weinehall wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 03:30:38AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:02:57AM +0100, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a
> > wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:55:22PM +0100, Guerkan Senguen wrote:
> > > > Package: wnpp
> > > > Severity: wishlist
> > > >
> > > > * Package name : freebsd-manpages
> > > > Version : 6.0
> > > Wouldn't this package conflict with the 'manpages' package (which
> > > provides them for GNU/Linux) and with the manpages provided by other
> > > (core) packages? Or are all manpages going to be renamed so that
> > > there is no filename conflict under /usr/share/man/man{2,4}?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Javier
> >
> > Hi,
> > if 'manpages' are GFDL and freebsd-manpages is under a bsd license,
> > then if freebsd-manpages CAN replace manpages and GFDL docs are
> > removed, then there will be no conflict.
>
> a.) The manpages packages does not (AFAIK) contain any GFDL docs;
> it's not provided by FSF, since they have a strange aversion
> against manpages, and an even stranger predilection for info
> pages...
>
> b.) The package itself does not *need* to conflict with the manpages
> package, since it provides manpages for 4, 5, and 7,
> (and manpages-dev provides 2, and 3).
>
> Replaces: manpages, manpages-dev
>
> is needed though.
>
> HOWEVER, since manpages-dev presumably contains documentations for
> interfaces that are Linux specific, it might make sense to have a
> Conflicts: manpages, manpages-dev
> anyway. This would mean that users of Debian GNU/FreeBSD would lose
> the manual-pages for glibc though (since they are also in manpages-dev).
> Maybe the manpages source package should be split into more binary
> packages? manpages (generic stuff for all Debian systems),
> manpages-linux (Linux specific things, like sysfs), manpages-linux-dev
> (Linux specific programming interfaces).
>
Hi David,
after a brief inspection, it seem 'manpages' are under various and
sundry licenses (none are GFDL) which is good. But with the change from
kernel-image to linux-image as one recognition of Debians' intent to be
more inclusive of non-linux thingy, should there be a change in the
installation path and notation inside man pages as to their kernel
origin? (like .../man/linux/ and .../man/bsd/) This would allow
simultaneous installtion and would allow someone on either system to be
able to read man pages from other systems. I doubt there was ever a *nix
system that envisioned bsd and linux stuff being installed on the same
system x-)
Cheers,
Kev
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