On 20/09/2025 17:08, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
Hi!
GNU coreutils manual pages are to some degree incomplete. I was told
today that "tsort(1) is a bad joke". I wonder if you'd be interested in
moving the maintenance of the manual pages of GNU coreutils to the Linux
man-pages project, where I could take care of them, and improve their
contents.
I understand GNU's stance on manual pages, and that you might not be
interested in improving them much, but maybe you're open to them being
improved elsewhere.
The Linux man-pages project already documents the GNU C library, so it
wouldn't be extraneous to also take ownership of the coreutils manual
pages.
What do you think?
The man pages are programmatically generated from the sources.
I.e. $cmd --help is processed by help2man.
All of the man pages have links to the info docs for full documentation.
Any concise improvements for the man pages are gladly accepted,
but would be applied to the source (also for --help).
cheers,
Padraig
