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

[Andries Brouwer]

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 07:22:22AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> sorry, the TH section that states "GNU fileutils 4.1" implied that the man 
> page was taken from that package / version ... i didnt actually check the 
> source

Yes, the man-pages package has contained ls.1 etc for a while.
The last update was for fileutils 4.0, as seen e.g. in ls(1)

       -h, --human-readable
              Append  a  size  letter,  such  as  M   for   binary   megabytes
              (`mebibytes'), to each size.  (New in fileutils-4.0.)
...
NOTES
       This  page  describes  ls  as found in the fileutils-4.0 package; other
       versions may differ slightly.


These pages are now being discarded, which is a pity since they are still
better than the corresponding GNU pages. But it is true that they are
outdated - one evening of work is needed to update them.

More in general it is a pity that when people complained to GNU
that they preferred man pages over info files the GNU reaction was
to provide low quality, machine-generated, man-pages, telling people
to read the info files. Of course such low-quality man-pages are worse
than having nothing at all, since they will replace good man-pages
from elsewhere.

Andries