On Sat, Jan 06, 2024 at 03:49:05PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > For us Debian users a better choice would seem to be: > > https://manpages.debian.org/ > > The only thing is that I don't see a category for oldstable and > oldoldstable, etc.
It's by release code name, e.g. "buster" instead of "oldoldstable". <https://manpages.debian.org/buster/grep> (which is easy to remember and to type manually) takes you to a disambiguation page that links to <https://manpages.debian.org/buster/grep/egrep.1.en.html> and so on. If you skip the release name and just go to <https://manpages.debian.org/awk> it takes a guess and redirects you to <https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/9base/awk.1plan9.en.html> which is not the GNU awk page, but hey, it's *one* awk page. I have no idea why some conflicts result in a disambiguation page, and others result in a guess. <https://manpages.debian.org/gawk> takes you to <https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/gawk/gawk.1.en.html> which is more likely what you wanted. If you want an older release's man page, you can edit the URL and replace "bookworm" with "bullseye" or whatever. So, there's a certain intuitiveness to the URL bar interface, but also some surprises, when multiple source packages all provide a man page with the same name.
