Am 30.08.2015 um 11:50 schrieb Kurt Roeckx: > On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 01:30:29AM +0200, Alexander Koeppe wrote: >> Package: libssl-dev >> Version: 1.0.1k-3+deb8u1 >> Severity: wishlist >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> I'm missing the man pages for ASN1 programming (section 3). >> The man pages for (e.g.) BN are there though (`man bn`). >> I'm assigning this bug report to your package as it's delivering the >> C header file and on other systems, libssl-dev is the package which >> distributes this man page onto the system (`man 3 asn1`). > There isn't an overview of ASN1 functions, but those that are > documented are availablable in the libssl-doc package, just like > the bn functions. > > I'm also unsure what you would like to do with it. > > > Kurt > I'm using the documentation provided on the system as a programming reference. Either per man-pages or documentation resources in /usr/share/doc (e.g. libgtk3-doc). Because I'm not yet familiar with these type of functions and types, I looked for any documentation, but nearly found nothing. For ASN1 functions, I've found only a small HTML doc which e.g. doesn't mention the BN_to_ASN1_INTEGER function though. With the help of the BN* man pages I was at least able to derive the way these functions may be used. But it was definetly not RTFM which I typically prefer.
Thatswhy I request to add it to the -doc package of the ssl library. Cheers Alex
