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Bug#94995: [AMENDMENT 01/05/2001] Clarifying instructions on linking man pages
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On Tue, 01 May 2001 at 20:24:51 +, Colin Watson wrote:
> retitle 94995 [AMENDMENT 01/05/2001] Clarifying instructions on linking man
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Bug#94995: [PROPOSAL] Clarifying instructions on linking man pages
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retitle 94995 [AMENDMENT 01/05/2001] Clarifying instructions on linking man
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severity 94995 normal
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I propose a two-week discussion period for this proposal.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 01 May 2001 at 17:09:41 +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> I'll second it, but please first figure out how we're going to make
> the transition. Mass bug reporting, lintian test, announce on
> -devel-announce, warning from mandb or what?
I'd intended mass maintonly bug reporting and an upload
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 04:10:07PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> >> -/usr/share/man).
> >> +/usr/share/man). If you do not create any links
> >> +(whether symlinks, hard links, or .so directives) in the
> >> +filesystem to the alternate names of the manpage, then you
> >> +should
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 05:11:06PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> --- policy.sgml.orig Sat Apr 21 14:05:54 2001
> +++ policy.sgml Sat Apr 21 18:15:04 2001
> @@ -6528,7 +6528,24 @@
> absolute filenames in .so directives. The filename
> in a .so in a manpage should be relative t
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Colin Watson wrote:
>> - /usr/share/man).
>> + /usr/share/man). If you do not create any links
>> + (whether symlinks, hard links, or .so directives) in the
>> + filesystem to the alternate names of the manpage, then you
>
Colin Watson wrote:
> - /usr/share/man).
> + /usr/share/man). If you do not create any links
> + (whether symlinks, hard links, or .so directives) in the
> + filesystem to the alternate names of the manpage, then you
> + should not rely on man finding your manpage
> +
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 at 23:28:52 +0100, Stephen Stafford wrote:
> Today I got sick of waiting for man to search for some pages, it has
> been getting steadily slower for weeks now. I suspect my man database
> had become at least semi-corrupt, I have been running man on lots of
> local files rece
On Monday 23 April 2001 5:11 pm, Colin Watson wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.5.3.0
> Severity: wishlist
>
[big snip, you already know what it says]
Today I got sick of waiting for man to search for some pages, it has
been getting steadily slower for weeks now. I suspect my man da
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.3.0
Severity: wishlist
[I've clarified this proposal slightly from what I originally posted on
debian-policy, in response to Chris Waters' comments.]
A recent discussion on debian-mentors [1] brought it to my attention
that packages frequently rely on an imple
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 at 15:01:37 -0500, Chris Waters wrote:
> I'll double check with the standards documents I have around here to
> see if I find any other problems, but for now, I think this is
> probably ok.
Thanks, I appreciate the sanity-check.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 08:38:07PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> I'm confused about what you're referring to. I'm not talking about the
> .so feature, which is fine and will stay - I'm talking about putting
> several names in the .SH NAME section without also putting them in the
> filesystem as sym
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 at 13:45:09 -0500, Chris Waters wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 06:57:48PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > A recent discussion on debian-mentors brought it to my attention
> > that packages frequently rely on an implementation detail of man:
> > that it holds a database of whati
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 06:57:48PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> A recent discussion on debian-mentors brought it to my attention
> that packages frequently rely on an implementation detail of man:
> that it holds a database of whatis entries and happens to be able to
> find pages even if the file
A recent discussion on debian-mentors brought it to my attention that
packages frequently rely on an implementation detail of man: that it
holds a database of whatis entries and happens to be able to find pages
even if the file containing the man page has a different name. For
instance, look at xli
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