[Traduc] Section 1 pages to disappear from man-pages

[Michael Kerrisk]

Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> Alain PORTAL wrote:
>> Le lundi 30 avril 2007, Michael Kerrisk a écrit :
>>> Hello downstream man-pages folk,
>>>
>>> For a long time, man-pages has had a few section 1 pages:
>>>
>>> chgrp.1
>>> chmod.1
>>> chown.1
>>> cp.1
>>> dd.1
>>> df.1
>>> diff.1
>>> dir.1
>>> dircolors.1
>>> du.1
>>> install.1
>>> intro.1
>>> ldd.1
>>> ln.1
>>> ls.1
>>> mkdir.1
>>> mkfifo.1
>>> mknod.1
>>> mv.1
>>> rm.1
>>> rmdir.1
>>> time.1
>>> touch.1
>>> vdir.1
>>>
>>> However, most of these pages are rather unmaintained and out of date, or
>>> better versions are provided in other packages, or 'info" provides 
>>> better
>>> info.  And the Section 1p pages from POSIX cover the portable subset of
>>> functionality that should exist for these commands on all systems.
>>>
>>> In any case, I would like to lose most of these from man-pages, since 
>>> they
>>> are not about programming interfaces.  The *possible* exceptions that 
>>> I may
>>> keep are:
>>>
>>> intro.1
>>> ldd.1
>>>
>>> Unless I hear some good objections these pages are likely to 
>>> disappear from
>>> man-pages in the next few weeks.
>>
>> I have objections Michael, sorry ;-)
>> Of course, these man pages are really to old!
>> There is only one reason its are old, noboby maintiends its...
> 
> Hi Alain,
> 
> It's good that you responded  to my mail, since that gives me a chance 
> to follow up with more detail.
> 
> As I understand it, Andries put these pages together drawing information
>> from existing man-pages, and POSIX, to cover portability stuff.
> 
> I've checked the situation on Mandriva, Fedora, SUSE, Gentoo, Ubuntu and 
> Debian.  In only one of those distributions were these man1 pages even 
> being distributed.  Most of them are distributing the coreutils versions 
> of the pages.  The exception is Gentoo, which is going to now swap over 
> to the coreutils versions of the pages.

In a wonderful piece of English-centrism, I forgot to mention that I 
have only checked the situation in the English versions of all of those 
distributions...  French is the most current of the translations of 
course, and Martin Schulze pointed out a possible solution of this 
really is a problem for the French translation.

Cheers,

Michael