Bug#859514: file conflict with keyutils

2017-04-05 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
These manual pages recently (about 3 meeks ago) migrated from the upstream keyutils project to the upstream man-pages project. See http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.de/2017/03/man-pages-410-is-released.html . They have been removed in the upstream keyutils project in its latest release 9which happene

Bug#859511: libbsd-dev: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man3/explicit_bzero.3.gz', which is also in package manpages-dev 4.10-1

2017-04-05 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On 5 April 2017 at 11:59, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2017-04-04 18:41:10 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2017-04-04 16:29 +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: >> > Unpacking libbsd-dev:amd64 (0.8.3-1) ... >> > dpkg: error processing archive >> > /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-tduipc/101-libbsd-dev_0.8.3-1_amd64.deb

Bug#847998: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#847998: manpages: file conflicts with initscripts

2016-12-16 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Hello Thorsten, On 12/16/2016 03:36 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > >> On 12/16/2016 02:53 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >>> On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >>> >>>> That doesn&

Bug#847998: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#847998: manpages: file conflicts with initscripts

2016-12-16 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On 12/16/2016 02:53 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > >> That doesn't document (upstream) reality though. Once upon a time, >> there were one or two Section 9 pages in the man-pages >> project. No one updated them o

Bug#847998: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#847998: manpages: file conflicts with initscripts

2016-12-16 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On 12/16/2016 02:37 PM, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi, > > Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >>> Upstream man-pages maintainer here; I just added tmpfs(5), unaware >>> that it would create a conflict for Debian; I a

Bug#847998: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#847998: manpages: file conflicts with initscripts

2016-12-16 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On 12/16/2016 02:40 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, Axel Beckert wrote: > > The manpage about the Linux tmpfs should be tmpfs(9) as it > covers a kernel concept (here: a filesystem). Not sure where this idea originates. There is no Section 9 on Linux. >>> >>> Ah

Bug#847998: manpages: file conflicts with initscripts

2016-12-13 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
>>> And there's certainly precedent for section 5 pages on filesystems. >>> For example, among others, we have ext4(5), btrfs(5), and nfs(5). >> >> But section 5 is for configuration files. You could move them >> to section 7 (general concepts), though. > > I can't move "them" as they come from div

Bug#847998: manpages: file conflicts with initscripts

2016-12-13 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On 13 December 2016 at 10:56, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > >> I can't move "them" as they come from diverse projects (nfs-utils, > > OK. > >> e2fsprogs, btrfs-progs). Obviously, various projects came

Bug#847998: manpages: file conflicts with initscripts

2016-12-13 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Hello Thorsten, On 13 December 2016 at 10:43, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > >> Upstream man-pages maintainer here; I just added tmpfs(5), unaware >> that it would create a conflict for Debian; I assume the conflicting

Bug#847998: manpages: file conflicts with initscripts

2016-12-13 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Upstream man-pages maintainer here; I just added tmpfs(5), unaware that it would create a conflict for Debian; I assume the conflicting page is Debian-specific(?). (I don't have such a page on my Fedora system.) On 13 December 2016 at 10:00, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Michael B