From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 36C262F7AC6 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2025 16:27:20 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=140.211.166.183 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1758385643; cv=none; b=Ftc+L/IaYmHIW6nqoBzz93UsmbE0W6mxoHcgQjLhFV3Z1HbQ72xO7qpFOUALmyQiMkAltudZ9AqZPdxV+ClsIko2rnGAXrRiKye+t23/U1JpHnOZeZFdqNaVNhlOVe4ftJo6nvZ8jo0dtwA1vve3BFJ/wOKyL2Da5RLWDvbIw00= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1758385643; c=relaxed/simple; bh=9kJVgzLPn7o1GCPNH5sW14jepC8U0/y2akpV3f/hV18=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=PfBT8iWnXmzk1fSREE/sOJJMZUcA2D0+fUuZzGSB2dZARIs33mlNJexLNHNiFaa06mCZQOUCFYMdNsFoEEhPpMzn8AyN/x8BQ705/ykG0NFHhu4SlpNwi/OfmT6l9wi6ZU1xm/ReMGgsn9l67evXpBzmbC0He1njD6aTwqoHpdg= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=gentoo.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=gentoo.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=140.211.166.183 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=gentoo.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=gentoo.org Received: from mop.sam.mop (2.8.3.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.a.5.c.d.c.d.9.1.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa [IPv6:2001:8b0:19dc:dc5a::382]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange secp256r1 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: sam) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EEFD7341FAB; Sat, 20 Sep 2025 16:27:19 +0000 (UTC) From: Sam James To: Alejandro Colomar Cc: coreutils@gnu.org, linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Move GNU manual pages to the Linux man-pages project In-Reply-To: Organization: Gentoo References: User-Agent: mu4e 1.12.12; emacs 31.0.50 Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2025 17:27:17 +0100 Message-ID: <87zfap144a.fsf@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Alejandro Colomar 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.