On 2026-10-04 11:03:38 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > Notice that in #34668 you complain concerning man pages that actually are > maintained by a separate project. It may be annoying to glibc developers.
No, Debian's version of the nscd(8) man page is part of the glibc source: qaa:~> apt-file search man/man8/nscd.8 nscd: /usr/share/man/man8/nscd.8.gz glibc being the source package of nscd, and in the man page: GNU C Library 2.2 January 07, 2001 NSCD(8) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > This bug report indirectly says that users expect to find man pages that may > be more convenient than info manuals. On the other hand, it is for those who > defines GNU&FSF policies. Glibc developers just follow imposed rules. It is > better to ask for actions that may be performed by project developers, e.g. > to add .texi docs. The glibc manual does not provide any information about nscd!!! > > the issue is in Debian, which apparently comes from BSD. In > > bookworm: > > > > NSCD(8) BSD System Manager's Manual > > NSCD(8) > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/nscd/nscd.8.en.html > I see no "BSD": > "NSCD(8) System Manager's Manual NSCD(8)" The "BSD System Manager's Manual" is not part of the nscd.8 file. But it appears with "man nscd". There may be something obscure involved. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
