clone 460637 -1 retitle 460637 manpages-dev: Port over whatever is useful from LinuxThreads pages severity 460637 wishlist reassign 460637 manpages-dev retitle -1 Please remove outdated LinuxThreads manpages forcemerge 572716 -1 severity -1 minor block -1 by 519781 thanks
Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Josef Spillner wrote: >> The man pages are LinuxThreads-specific, even though the default >> implementation of pthreads is NPTL nowadays. Some library calls such as >> pthread_mutexattr_setpshared are missing, and some of the limitations >> (such as using inter-process mutex locking), options and other >> peculiarities also differ. >> >> Unfortunately I think that the docs are outdated upstream as well > > Indeed, the LinuxThreads man pages are not even maintained upstream > any more AFAICT. > > My suggestion would be to copy over any information and text that applies > for NPTL to the man-pages project, and once the man-pages versions are > deemed suitable (or maybe right away), get the Debian glibc-doc package > to stop shipping these files and manpages-dev to start. So splitting the bug in two: - Since the LinuxThreads man pages tend to be nice though outdated, I will be working as time permits to copy what is still applicable to man-pages. mtk seems to be okay with this plan, which is nice. See [1] for details on how to help out. - The pages in man-pages are usable and maintained, and I think we should ship them. This requires coordination between the two packages. Actually, manpages-dev should be changed first (with Replaces: glibc-doc, this requires no action by the glibc maintainers). [1] http://bugs.debian.org/460637 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-glibc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100308053636.ga22...@progeny.tock
