[debian-mysql] Fixing man page syntax errors in upstream Oracle

[Norvald H. Ryeng]

On Fri, 09 Jan 2015 12:52:04 +0100, Otto Kekäläinen <otto at seravo.fi> wrote:

> 2015-01-05 16:20 GMT+02:00 Norvald H. Ryeng <norvald.ryeng at oracle.com>:
>>> patches on. Is there a separate man page repo somewhere I can check
>>> out and create a patch upon?
>>
>>
>> No, I'm afraid not. They're only in the tarballs.
>
> This seems to be the commit where the man pages got removed:
> https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/commit/f793d7b5bf4b8ba314d6588a0764818599e8dc58#diff-39c63ddb96a31b9610cd976b896ad4f0
> It is ages old (2005) and I assume the doc repo references does not
> exists anymore. I think it would be a good idea to add the man pages
> back in the repo again, as I think the man pages and their versions
> are very much tied to the binaries and the binary versions they
> describe. And it would make the life of downstream packagers slightly
> easier as there is just one single source package.

It's still one source package (tarball), but I see your point. That commit  
is ancient, and I have no idea why they decided to do that.

>
> ..just my suggestion..

It's a good one. I can't promise anything, but I'll bring this up with the  
doc team.

Norvald