Hello Thorsten, On 12/16/2016 03:36 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > >> On 12/16/2016 02:53 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >>> On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >>> >>>> That doesn't document (upstream) reality though. Once upon a time, >>>> there were one or two Section 9 pages in the man-pages >>>> project. No one updated them or added new one in > 15 years, >>>> and I deleted them years ago, as being out-of-date and useless. >>> >>> This is not a reason against restarting this section, though. >> >> There is no-one who will work on it. > > Excuse me for reading this as your statement being “I won’t work on it”
(Yep, it's true. Too much else to do, even if it would be interesting.) > but you cannot say that “no-one” will. Yes, it's merely my prediction. > For example, if the Debian > maintainer of those manual pages considers this a good idea, they > are free to work on this. One manpage at a time is good enough. Sure. I just don't expect someone to step forward for that task. >> And, related to the current discussion, the Debian tmpfs-config >> would not belong in that section. > > Of course not. I stated something quite different: I misunderstood. >>> Hmm. So we could conceivably move the manpage about the >>> tmpfs filesystem to section 9 as a Debian-local patch But the same statement applies. The tmpfs filesystem page also does not belong in section 9... Have a good weekend! Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
