On Thursday 10 May 2007, Alain PORTAL wrote:
Le lundi 30 avril 2007, Michael Kerrisk a écrit :
Hello downstream man-pages folk,
For a long time, man-pages has had a few section 1 pages:
chgrp.1 chmod.1 chown.1 cp.1 dd.1 df.1 diff.1 dir.1 dircolors.1 du.1 install.1 intro.1 ldd.1 ln.1 ls.1 mkdir.1 mkfifo.1 mknod.1 mv.1 rm.1 rmdir.1 time.1 touch.1 vdir.1
However, most of these pages are rather unmaintained and out of date, or better versions are provided in other packages, or 'info" provides better info. And the Section 1p pages from POSIX cover the portable subset of functionality that should exist for these commands on all systems.
In any case, I would like to lose most of these from man-pages, since they are not about programming interfaces. The *possible* exceptions that I may keep are:
intro.1 ldd.1
Unless I hear some good objections these pages are likely to disappear from man-pages in the next few weeks.
I have objections Michael, sorry ;-) Of course, these man pages are really to old! There is only one reason its are old, noboby maintiends its...
they were never maintained ... they were simply imported from the GNU projects
taking coreutils as an example (since the list above is pretty much completely for coreutils), it provides fully up-to-date man pages for most of the things here ... there's no point in constantly copying and updating the versions in man-pages when the coreutils project is already doing it -mike