On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 12:42:08PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * David Weinehall: > > >> Upstream includes non-free manpages these days, so in reality, we have > >> already forked. Further Debian-specific changes are needed to address > >> bugs such as #295211 (upstream does not document our libc/kernel > >> combination). > > > > What manpages in upstream are non-free? Do we have rewritten > > alternatives in Debian, or are those pages simply removed without > > replacement? > > They are simply removed without replacement. For most of the older > system calls, the old free manpages (which also contain Linux-specific > details) are still included in the upstream package. Only new system > calls (such as mq_receive) appear to be undocumented.
Do you making a list of the missing pages? I've written quite a few manpages for various programs, and I'm a really frequent user of the already existing manpages, so I can hopefully help contributing a few free replacements. Who knows, if they are good enough we might even be able to convince upstream to replace the non-free versions. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Beautiful hoar-frost (/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]