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

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

On 13 December 2016 at 10:56, Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser at tarent.de> wrote:
> 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,

This would be Debian-specific then?

> 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.

See my other reply. (FreeBSD) follows the same convention here as Linux...

Cheers,

Michael




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