From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
To: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: -utils binary package (was: man-pages-6.17 released)
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:48:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ab1dAyK2kFtxnxO6@devuan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aYy41v6tYda2Qc_1@devuan>
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Hi,
On 2026-02-11T18:57:19+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Gidday!
>
> I'm proud to announce:
>
> man-pages-6.17 - manual pages for GNU+Linux
[...]
> ==================== NEWS =========================================
>
> This release adds several new programs. We recommend that distributions
> package all of our src/bin/ scripts in a separate binary package, called
> something like manpages-utils (this happens to be the name I'd suggest
> specifically for Debian, for consistency with manpages and
> manpages-dev).
>
> - src/bin/grepc
> - src/bin/grepc_c
> - src/bin/grepc_mk
> - src/bin/mansectf
I have some updates from distros:
- Arch added the package manpages-utils immediately.
- Debian has now added the binary package manpages-utils in 6.17-2.
Have a lovely day!
Alex
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<https://www.alejandro-colomar.es>
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2026-02-11 17:57 man-pages-6.17 released Alejandro Colomar
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