[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#848121: File conflict between manpages and initscripts

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Michael,

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 03:27:42PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On 14 December 2016 at 14:52, Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org> wrote:
> > I don't know the difference, but I could imagine that the manpages'
> > tmpfs.5 has some more systemd-specific information. So if the
> > sysvinit-specific parts in tmpfs.5 are not gone (or soon to be
> > removed), then we could switch to the version from manpages.
> 
> The pages cover different topics
> 
> The Debian page describes a Debian config file, /etc/default/tmpfs,
> used for configuring various tmpfs filesystems.
> 
> The upstream man-pages page describes the basics of the tmpfs
> filesystem. (Systemd does not figure in there.) This follows a pattern
> for other filesystems where we have pages such as xfs(5), btrfs(5),
> nfs(5), ext4(5), ...

thanks for the explanation.

I must admit that I never was aware that filesystems are in the same
manual section as file formats (5). I would have expected them in
section 7 or so, but there's probably a not that small intersection
between things that fit into section 5 and things that fit in section
7.

But then again initscripts' tmpfs.5 is IMHO clearly section 5 (file
format) and not section 7. While I would put information about the
tmpfs file system into section 7 with good conscience, it clearly
doesn't make sense since all other file system man pages are in
section 5.

Difficult …

		Kind regards, Axel
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