[Pkg-shadow-devel] shadowconfig(8) manual page

[Chris Hofstaedtler]

Hi Alejandro,

* Alejandro Colomar <alx at kernel.org> [250101 01:48]:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> I was looking at the patches that Debian carries for shadow, and found a
> horrible-looking manual page.  Here's a new year present for you.  :)
> 
> I see that you generate it from the XML, but I hate those generated
> pages, and since you're already downstream, you probably don't need
> that.  I guess you can handle the man(7) page directly.

Thanks, I'll take it. I was hoping that we can get rid of
shadowconfig altogether sometime soon, but probably not for trixie.

> I'm not good at using quilt, so I didn't try editing the quilt patch.
> Instead, I provide you with the source code below.  In case you want a
> git commit to transform it into a quilt patch, you can get this page
> from my server:
> <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/shadow/alx/shadow.git/commit/?h=shadowconfig_man>

This URL uses a self-signed certificate and is thus unaccessible.

> Have a lovely new year!

You too.

Chris