Greg Wooledge:
Gene's copy/paste was crude, but his point was essentially valid:
No, it was not. I remind you of xyr point which was:
Gene Heskett:
So if you call it widely publicized it fails that definition AFAIAC.
That I pointed to 9 different copies, including copies on Debian's ow
On Monday 21 August 2017 09:06:27 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 06:35:09PM +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
wrote:
> > Debian 7 has those very manual pages:
> >
> >
> > * https://manpages.debian.org/wheezy/upstart/inittab.5.en.html
>
> Gene's copy/paste was crude, but his point w
On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 06:35:09PM +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
> Debian 7 has those very manual pages:
>
>
> * https://manpages.debian.org/wheezy/upstart/inittab.5.en.html
Gene's copy/paste was crude, but his point was essentially valid:
the inittab(5) page on a *real* wheezy system
On Sat 19 Aug 2017 at 15:05:51 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
[Lots and lots of brutal snipping]
> ===
>
> > * https://manpages.debian.org/wheezy/systemd-sysv/runlevel.8.en.html
>
> Which is even older with a 1997 origin date.
>
> I won't waste the bandwidth
On Saturday 19 August 2017 13:35:09 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
> Jonathan de Boyne Pollard:
> > Furthermore: In this *particular* regard, the developer-provided
> > doco actually *is* clear. The upstart manual page for inittab has
> > been warning that the file is obsolete for over ten years
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard:
Furthermore: In this *particular* regard, the developer-provided doco
actually *is* clear. The upstart manual page for inittab has been
warning that the file is obsolete for over ten years, and that manual
page is copied all over the WWW making it fairly easy to come
On Saturday 19 August 2017 05:32:25 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
> Felix Miata:
> > What's needed is incentive for code creators to simultaneously
> > document, with ample examples that man pages usually omit, even if
> > it's only in formal, non-wikified docs that wikis can point to.
That wo
On Sat, 19 Aug 2017, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
The systemd people have not explicitly documented inittab, as the upstart
people did, although they have explicitly documented run levels as "obsolete"
in the systemd manual page for runlevel. This, too, has been copied around the
WWW, albe
Felix Miata:
What's needed is incentive for code creators to simultaneously
document, with ample examples that man pages usually omit, even if
it's only in formal, non-wikified docs that wikis can point to.
Gene Heskett:
It should be an iron-clad rule that a developer submitting his itch
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