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

[Serge E. Hallyn]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 07:57:24AM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> (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.

Yeah, honestly there are things I like in the man-pages version, like the
historical note about the GECOS field.  It would be nice to see them
somewhat merged.