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

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Michael Biebl wrote:

> The tmpfs man page shipped by the manpages package talks about the tmpfs
> file system.
> The man page shipped by initscripts talks about the debian/initscripts
> specific config file /etc/default/tmpfs.
>
> My gut feeling is, that debian specific tmpfs man page should be renamed.

>From the usual unix policy stuff:

The manpage about /etc/default/tmpfs can be tmpfs(5) as it
covers a configuration file.

The manpage about the Linux tmpfs should be tmpfs(9) as it
covers a kernel concept (here: a filesystem).

Thanks,
//mirabilos
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