Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Feb 2006 05:40:30 +0100 (MET) | From | "Michael Kerrisk" <> | Subject | Re: man-pages-2.22 is released |
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> On Monday, February 6, 2006 2:59 pm, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > > > Wouldn't it be easier for you to keep them up to date if sections 2, > > > 4, and parts of 5 were included in the kernel source tree? > > > Documentation updates could be enforced as part of the patch > > > process--all you'd have to do is NAK patches that modified userland > > > interfaces if they didn't contain documentation updates (and I'm > > > sure others would help you with that task). > > > > Life is not so simple, as I think we discussed when you made > > a similar comment after my man-pages-2.08 release. Maybe the > > system can be improved still. Currently Andrew Morton is being > > rather good about CCing me on patches that are likely to need > > man-pages changes. (Thanks Andrew!) > > Yeah, vigilance is key; maybe I'm wrong that putting the kernel stuff > into the kernel tree would help, but it's worth a try, don't you > think? :)
There is no simple solution to this problem, but I will give it some thought one day...
Cheers,
Michael
-- Michael Kerrisk maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7
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