[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#847998: manpages: file conflicts with initscripts

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:

> Upstream man-pages maintainer here; I just added tmpfs(5), unaware
> that it would create a conflict for Debian; I assume the conflicting
> page is Debian-specific(?). (I don't have such a page on my Fedora

Yes.

> > The manpage about the Linux tmpfs should be tmpfs(9) as it
> > covers a kernel concept (here: a filesystem).
> 
> Not sure where this idea originates. There is no Section 9 on Linux.

Ah, hmm, too bad then. We have them on BSD.

> And there's certainly precedent for section 5 pages on filesystems.
> For example, among others, we have ext4(5), btrfs(5), and nfs(5).

But section 5 is for configuration files. You could move them
to section 7 (general concepts), though.

Just collecting ideas, currently.

bye,
//mirabilos
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