On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Simon Paillard <spaill...@debian.org> wrote: > reassign 564874 manpages,libc-bin > thanks > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:38:15AM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: >> Package: manpages >> Version: 3.23-1 >> Severity: normal >> >> The current ld.so manpage is from glibc. It's gratuitously out of date >> and just plain wrong in places. The one in manpages is current and >> reasonably accurate. Please arrange for the version from manpages to >> be shipped instead of the glibc version. > > I concur, but we need agreement of libc-bin maintainers. > > http://people.debian.org/~spaillard/libc-or-manpages/ld.so.8.libc-bin > http://people.debian.org/~spaillard/libc-or-manpages/ld.so.8.manpages-linux > > The manpages-linux version provides more environment variables: > LD_AUDIT > LD_DYNAMIC_WEAK > LD_HWCAP_MASK > LD_ORIGIN_PATH > LD_POINTER_GUARD > LD_SHOW_AUXV > LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS > > (but no more LD_ASSUME_KERNEL).
For info: Jonathan Neider, CCed was looking at integrating those pieces of the Debian libc-bin page that were missing from the upstream man-pages ld.so.8 page. We did upstream one piece already, but I'm not sure what Jonathan's current plans are for further work. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org