[Pkg-shadow-devel] passwd(5) manual page

Serge E. Hallyn serge at hallyn.com
Mon Aug 1 13:57:24 BST 2022


(re-sending, corecting Christian's email address)

On Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 07:56:13AM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2022 at 12:53:20PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> > Hi Serge,
> > 
> > I see that Debian manpages remove passwd(5) from upstream Linux man-pages
> > because you (shadow-utils) already produce a page, and Debian manpages'
> > README.Debian says they like it more.
> > 
> > I'm happy with the passwd(5) manual page being part of shadow-utils.  Do you
> > know if all GNU/Linux distributions use shadow-utils and therefore have your
> 
> Many do, but alpine for instance does not.
> 
> > manual page?  I'd like to remove the page from the Linux man-pages if no-one
> > is reading it.
> > 
> > BTW, if I remove it, please have a look at it, just in case you see anything
> > that you may be interested in picking for your page.
> 
> I'll take a look later this week, thanks.
> 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Alex
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Alejandro Colomar
> > Linux man-pages comaintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
> > http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/



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