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

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:06:52PM +0200, Alexander Koeppe wrote:
> 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.

I'm unsure why you think you need to know anything about the ASN1
functions.  I suggest that if you can you stay away from ASN1.


Kurt