Hi Sam,

On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 05:27:17PM +0100, Sam James wrote:
> Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> But GNU coreutils isn't Linux specific.

Hmmm, true.  You can install the man1/ pages with `make install-man1`,
though, so it's not a big deal.

I see the packaging complication, though, by having the package split
into two upstream packages.


Have a lovely day!
Alex

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Use port 80 (that is, <...:80/>).

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