On Fri, 04 May 2007 17:11:30 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello Sam, > > Am 2007-05-02 19:06:09, schrieb Sam Morris: >> On Wed, 02 May 2007 19:19:53 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: >> > I have goten an older source which has some problems to compile under >> > Sid. After reading a bunch of "manpages-dev" I have seen that >> > "getpass" is obsolete and I should not use it. >> >> Although the getpass man page (dated from seven years ago!) says this, >> glibc's actual documentation[0] does not mention any problems with the >> getpass function--so I don't see any particular reason to avoid it. >> >> [0] >> http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/getpass.html#index- >> getpass-3653 > > Should I submit a bugreport/patch againt "manpages-dev"?
The only reason I did not do so is because there are a lot of these kind of errors/omissions. IMO correcting them is not worthwhile because the 'manpages' package will always be an outdated secondhand copy of upstream's documentation, which is shipped in the 'glibc-doc-reference' package (in non-free, grr). If it were up to me, I would replace them all by text automatically extracted from the info documentation (tricky for technical and legal reasons) or by skeleton man pages that looks something like this: GETPASS(3) GNU C Library Reference Manual NAME getpass DESCRIPTION See * http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/getpass.html#index- getpass-3653 * info:(libc)getpass -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
