[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#797362: Bug#797362: libssl-dev: man page for ASN1 section 3 missing

[Alexander Koeppe]

Am 30.08.2015 um 11:50 schrieb Kurt Roeckx:
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 01:30:29AM +0200, Alexander Koeppe wrote:
>> Package: libssl-dev
>> Version: 1.0.1k-3+deb8u1
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> I'm missing the man pages for ASN1 programming (section 3). 
>> The man pages for (e.g.) BN are there though (`man bn`).
>> I'm assigning this bug report to your package as it's delivering the
>> C header file and on other systems, libssl-dev is the package which 
>> distributes this man page onto the system (`man 3 asn1`).
> There isn't an overview of ASN1 functions, but those that are
> documented are availablable in the libssl-doc package, just like
> the bn functions.
>
> I'm also unsure what you would like to do with it.
>
>
> Kurt
>
I'm using the documentation provided on the system as a programming
reference. Either per man-pages or documentation resources in
/usr/share/doc (e.g. libgtk3-doc).
Because I'm not yet familiar with these type of functions and types, I
looked for any documentation, but nearly found nothing.
For ASN1 functions, I've found only a small HTML doc which e.g. doesn't
mention the BN_to_ASN1_INTEGER function though. With the help of the BN*
man pages I was at least able to derive the way these functions may be used.
But it was definetly not RTFM which I typically prefer.

Thatswhy I request to add it to the -doc package of the ssl library.

Cheers Alex