Hi Sven, On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 05:35:18PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Obviously the manpages-dev package should not have shipped these files > as long as there are in glibc-doc; this is tracked in #1068166.
I CCed back in 2023-10 the debian-glibc@ list notifying that these pages were absorbed into the Linux man-pages project. They didn't respond. <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/703ec07e-dd2b-bbc6-f1bc-f495e53b7...@gmail.com/T/> However, the original author of the pages talked to me, agreeing to that. Other glibc upstream maintainers also participated in the thread. > > > Please, remove from glibc-doc those manual pages that conflict with > > manpages-dev. > > Considering that the manpages in glibc-doc are not included upstream and The history is a bit more complex than that. They were originally written upstream. Then glibc removed them. A decade later, Debian added them back via a patch, with some modifications. I noted down the history in the discussion linked above. > created via a Debian patch, that makes a lot of sense. I was not aware > of that fact. > > > Marcos, you'll also need to specify a breaks with glibc-doc versions > > up to (and including) 6.38-6 in the next revision of manpages-dev, and > > drop 6.7-1. > > Adding a Breaks on glibc-doc (<= 2.38-6) to manpages-dev is no good, > because that version is only in experimental and will remain there for > several weeks if not months. I think manpages-dev should drop these Why not add glibc-doc 2.38-7 dropping the patch that adds these pages? We're not in a freeze, so I guess that's fair game. > files for now and re-include either when glibc 2.38 is in unstable or > when it is in testing. Why do we need to wait to ask for a glibc-doc_2.38-7 with the patch dropped? Does 2.38 have any freeze at the moment? > There is also the problem that some derivatives (most notably Ubuntu) > are already shipping glibc 2.39 and will have to adjust Breaks/Replaces > versions in manpages-dev accordingly. Hmmm. I suggest they patch glibc-doc to remove those manual pages. They have been unsupported for a long time. The last change in glibc-doc is from 2013. > Thoughts? > > Cheers, > Sven Have a lovely day! Alex -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> Looking for a remote C programming job at the moment.
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