Hi!! On 12/22/22 20:39, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
Gidday!I'm proud to announce: man-pages-6.02 - manual pages for GNU/Linux
I hope this is really my last release in an unsigned long long time[1]. You can take it as a Christmas present :) Now, I'm officially waiting for groff-1.23 to be released to declare it as a dependency. Deri sent me a present for Christmas, and it would be a much smaller and better present if groff 1.23 was out... just sayin'. :P
My plan going forward (man-pages-6.03), although there's not much of a plan:- Don't release for 2 years or so, until a few months before the freeze for Debian trixie.
- Migrate to MR macros after groff-1.23 is in Debian.[2]- Provide a PDF book of the Linux man-pages (actually, Deri did this; I'll just help polish it).
Cheers, Alex [1] The hell won't freeze before the next one, but I hope at least Debian freezes ;)[2] We know that the plan of not releasing, so in case I have to release, having sufficient groff in Debian should be enough. Other releases either move faster, so they'll also have it, or they should read the list of dependencies and/or the release notes before upgrading. Something important like the string issue might make me release again with some completely rewritten pages for who-knows-what...
The release tarball is already available on <kernel.org>. Tarball download: <https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/> Git repository: <https://git.kernel.org/cgit/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/> The most notable changes in this release are the following: - Rewritten pages for string-copying functions. These now use consistent language. Also added a new string_copying(7) page that serves as an overview of all such functions, compares them, and details which is appropriate for which uses. - Use _Nullable for documenting which functions accept NULL as a meaningful value in the function prototypes in the SYNOPSIS. - Use VLA syntax for documenting function parameters that are treated as arrays. This uses syntax not accepted by compilers. - Rewritten repository documentation (README, CONTRIBUTING, INSTALL, ...). - Documentation for new APIs, such as MADV_COLLAPSE in madvise(2). Thank you all for contributing.- There's also a repository change that is not part of this release: Historic versions of the project going back to man-pages-1.0 have been added to the git repository in a 'prehistory' branch.Cheers, Alex ==================== Changes in man-pages-6.02 ==================== Released: 2022-12-22, Aldaya
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