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/


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