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

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

Hello Thorsten,

On 13 December 2016 at 10:43, Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser at tarent.de> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the confirmation.

>> > 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.

(Yes.)

>
>> 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.

I can't move "them" as they come from diverse projects (nfs-utils,
e2fsprogs, btrfs-progs). Obviously, various projects came to the same
conclusion (or copied each other's idea) that Section 5 was the right
place. And in the Linux man-pages we also have filesystems(5) and
proc(5), for example.

Cheers,

Michael