tags 758293 fixed-upstream thanks On 08/16/2014 04:52 AM, Lorenzo Beretta wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 3.65-1 > Severity: minor > File: /usr/share/man/man3/drand48.3.gz > > Dear Maintainer, > > see Keith Thompson's detailed explanation at > http://stackoverflow.com/a/25276434. > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: jessie/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Versions of packages manpages-dev depends on: > ii manpages 3.65-1 > > manpages-dev recommends no packages. > > Versions of packages manpages-dev suggests: > ii konqueror [man-browser] 4:4.13.3-1 > ii man-db [man-browser] 2.6.7.1-1
I've simply removed the sentence about SVID. drand48() is in current POSIX. It's unclear why SVID 3 would have marked it obsolete, but that's crufty information that--as you seem to realize--only serves to pointlessly worry people. Thanks for the report. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org