From: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Cc: coreutils@gnu.org, linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Move GNU manual pages to the Linux man-pages project
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2025 17:27:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zfap144a.fsf@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wqfzoyixsh4l3wg7tkz3c4bjejy4wlski2s5g2pwoqiy2wg3ty@lkqy5semt757>
Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> writes:
> Hi!
>
> GNU coreutils manual pages are to some degree incomplete. I was told
> today that "tsort(1) is a bad joke". I wonder if you'd be interested in
> moving the maintenance of the manual pages of GNU coreutils to the Linux
> man-pages project, where I could take care of them, and improve their
> contents.
>
> I understand GNU's stance on manual pages, and that you might not be
> interested in improving them much, but maybe you're open to them being
> improved elsewhere.
>
> The Linux man-pages project already documents the GNU C library, so it
> wouldn't be extraneous to also take ownership of the coreutils manual
> pages.
But GNU coreutils isn't Linux specific.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-20 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-20 16:08 Move GNU manual pages to the Linux man-pages project Alejandro Colomar
2025-09-20 16:27 ` Sam James [this message]
2025-09-20 16:50 ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-09-20 17:00 ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-09-20 16:34 ` Pádraig Brady
2025-09-20 16:55 ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-09-20 17:01 ` Pádraig Brady
2025-09-20 17:04 ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-09-20 20:05 ` Collin Funk
2025-09-20 21:05 ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-09-20 23:02 ` Collin Funk
2025-09-21 8:36 ` Alejandro Colomar
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2025-09-20 23:18 ` Collin Funk
2025-09-22 15:06 ` Michael Greenberg
2025-09-20 17:42 ` Jakub Wilk
2025-09-20 21:10 ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-09-20 21:22 ` Collin Funk
2025-09-21 8:28 ` Bernhard Voelker
2025-09-21 20:00 ` Chuck Wolber
2025-09-21 12:02 ` Arsen Arsenović
2025-09-21 12:53 ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-09-25 14:04 ` Arsen Arsenović
2025-09-25 14:31 ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-09-29 9:46 ` Arsen Arsenović
2025-09-29 10:33 ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-09-29 21:26 ` Arsen Arsenović
2025-09-29 21:38 ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-09-29 21:41 ` Pádraig Brady
2025-09-29 23:27 ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-09-30 10:12 ` Pádraig Brady
2025-09-30 21:14 ` Bernhard Voelker
2025-09-30 13:23 ` Rob Landley
2025-09-30 13:35 ` G. Branden Robinson
2025-09-30 19:57 ` Arsen Arsenović
2025-09-30 20:55 ` G. Branden Robinson
2025-10-01 13:21 ` Arsen Arsenović
2025-10-01 19:37 ` Rob Landley
2025-10-02 18:46 ` Arsen Arsenović
2025-10-02 20:48 ` G. Branden Robinson
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