On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 03:59:28PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:42:11PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > >> Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> > >>> reassign 480852 manpages-posix 2.16-1 > >> Bug#480852: [checkbashisms] `kill -9` is considered as a bashism > >> Bug reassigned from package `devscripts' to `manpages-posix'. > >> > >>> retitle 480852 kill(1posix) should mention that -SIGNAME and -SIGNUMBER > >>> are XSI extensions > >> Bug#480852: [checkbashisms] `kill -9` is considered as a bashism > >> Changed Bug title to `kill(1posix) should mention that -SIGNAME and > >> -SIGNUMBER are XSI extensions' from `[checkbashisms] `kill -9` is > >> considered as a bashism'. > >> > > > > POSIX man pages are AS IS, they cannot be changed, so I would mark this > > bug as wontfix. > > Does that mean that upstream is dead? > > Cheers > > Luk
Yes and no. The Open Group stuff is up-to-date, but the linux man pages which do reproduce the OG contents in manpage form seem frozen since 2003. This specific issue seem managed in 2004 edition of the OG web pages, but manpages would require a quite extendend format and contents revision in order to add the supplementary information. I would be inclined to patch current pages only if someone would provide a global patch to move to the 2004 edition, else it is quite pointless. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
