glibc man pages

[Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz]

On Sunday 13 of July 2014, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 09:28:47PM +0200, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:
> > On Saturday 12 of July 2014, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 06:42:46PM +0200, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:
> > > > Hi. There are outdated manual pages in glibc.spec:
> > > > Source5:        http://qboosh.pl/man/%{name}-man-pages.tar.bz2
> > > > 
> > > > So the question is - do we really want them there? man-pages project
> > > > have updated version, so why we don't use these pages from
> > > > man-pages?
> > > 
> > > This tarball should be updated from latest man pages.
> > > 
> > > I worked on some automation scripts for updating per-package man pages
> > > tarballs a few years ago, maybe it would be easy to use them for glibc
> > > now...
> > 
> > I fail to understand why we want them in glibc.spec so badly.
> > man-pages.spec providing them is more sane to me.
> 
> To get ldconfig manuals together with ldconfig, similarly for ldd,
> getconf etc. - just like in other packages.

This approach clearly doesn't work for section 3 man pages. So maybe keep man3 
in man-pages and keep that (mostly outdated) glibc-man-pages tarball for 
tools?

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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / maven.pl