[Pkg-shadow-devel] Review of Debian man-pages-3.35 patches: open topics: passwd.5 (passwd vs shadow)

[Simon Paillard]

Hi Michael,

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 05:20:24PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Simon Paillard <spaillard at debian.org> wrote:
> > (with shadow maintainers in copy, feel free to CC linux-man at vger.kernel.org)
> >
> > On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 10:59:44AM +1200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
[...]
> > In Debian and its derivatives, passwd(5) is provided by passwd package, from
> > shadow source package, as this package manages /etc/passwd.
> > Moreover, shadow uses po4a and thus provides many translations already for
> > passwd.5.
> >
> > In case of basic passwd (not shadow's one), there is no manpage (like Fedora),
> > so no conflict.
[..]
> >> I'd encourage you to drop the getpwent.3 patch, and to reconsider
> >> adopting the man-pages passwd.5 page.
> >
> > Nicolas (shadow maintainer in Debian) said on IRC he'd agree with letting manpages
> > providing passwd.5, but it cannot apply for all distribs.
> >
> > So:
> > - shadow need to provide passwd.5, because its passwd is different from the
> >   one documented in manpages
> > - manpages need to provide passwd.5, because not all distribs use passwd from
> >   shadow.
> >
> > Do you have suggestions ?
> 
> Where/who is upstream for the other version of the passwd.5 page.

https://fedorahosted.org/passwd/ it seems

> Maybe the two upstreams can make a decision to consolidate in one
> place? (I not know the history of how there came to be a passwd.5 in
> man-pages and in another package.)

-- 
Simon Paillard