On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
> Christian Schwarz wrote:
> > > On a related note, what is the policy about the endings of manpages (e.g.
> > > /usr/X11R6/man1/package.1x.gz or /usr/X11R6/man1/package.1.gz)
> >
> > Good point, we haven't discussed this yet.
>
> What's the point of setting up a policy for something like this, that
> doesn't matter one way or another?
1. This discussion is raised every few months so be writing it down, we
might avoid future discussions on the very same topic :)
2. AFAIK all the extensions have to be _hardcoded_ into the man-db source
code. Thus, it's evil if maintainers `invent' new extensions.
Cheers,
Chris
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