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

[Ian Jackson]

Axel Beckert writes ("Bug#848121: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] File conflict between manpages and initscripts"):
> 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.

I agree.

> 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 …

I think the only sensible options are:

 - rename all the filesystem manpages to put them in section 7
 - rename the manpage about /etc/default/tmpfs to tmnfs-config(5)
   (or something, better name welcome).

Ian.

-- 
Ian Jackson <ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk>   These opinions are my own.

If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is
a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.