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

[Thorsten Glaser]

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

> I can't move "them" as they come from diverse projects (nfs-utils,

OK.

> 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.

So, we could temporarily not ship the Debian-specific manpage, while
suggesting to the various projects mentioned that section 5 may not
have been the best place for it. (Again, just collecting suggestions,
not deciding things for anyone ;-)

If there is no hard policy against section 9 I’d like to have
kernel-specific stuff there, otherwise I think section 7 is at
least more appropriate than section 5 – or section 4, possibly,
but that’s “device drivers” on BSD so it doesn’t feel fully
right either, but at least it’s kernel land, whereas 7 is more
general.

bye,
//mirabilos
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