[Bug 217148] New: man-pages-posix: create symlinks during installation

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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217148

            Bug ID: 217148
           Summary: man-pages-posix: create symlinks during installation
           Product: Documentation
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: man-pages
          Assignee: documentation_man-pages@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
          Reporter: esteve.varela@gmail.com
        Regression: No

Doing some pthreads programming as of recently, I've found that the
documentation is scattered across the man-pages and man-pages-posix projects.

Various pages refer to the existence of other pages, which simply don't exist
in a default installation as created by "make install" of man-pages-posix. For
example, pthreads(3) refers to pthread_cond_wait(3). Running "man
pthread_cond_wait" will result in the man page not being found.

On the website[1], this page appears to be a symlink. The correct page it
should lead to, being pthread_cond_wait(3p) (yes, 3p, not 3, as was referred).
However, currently no distributions make a symlink for these, so the correct
page is frequently hard to find.

I'd like to have a default set of man page symlinks created by the
man-pages-posix distribution tarball, reflecting whatever the man7.org site
does, such that these pages are more easily found, and the documentation is
consistent across linux distributions.

Interestingly, debian has a set of pages[2] for some of the "missing" pages,
but these aren't shipped in any other distribution I'm aware of.

[1]: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/pthread_cond_wait.3p.html
[2]: https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/glibc-doc/index.html

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