Debian bug report logs - #1801 tar manpage missing Reported by: Austin Donnelly . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From zork.tiac.net!sgk Sat Nov 4 07:56:39 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0tBkxT-0006DLC; Sat, 4 Nov 95 07:56 PST Received: from zork.tiac.net by pixar.com with SMTP id AA14075 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Sat, 4 Nov 1995 07:56:09 -0800 Received: from localhost (sgk.tiac.net [204.215.142.65]) by zork.tiac.net (8.6.9/8.6.6.Beta9) with ESMTP id KAA01391; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 10:54:05 -0500 Message-Id: <199511041554.KAA01391@zork.tiac.net> To: Austin Donnelly , debian-bugs@Pixar.com Subject: Re: Bug#1801: tar manpage missing In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 04 Nov 1995 15:28:29 GMT." Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 10:56:22 -0500 From: "Susan G. Kleinmann" Hi Austin -- Did you know about the info page on tar? All you have to do is to type info tar and you get it. I am considering starting a project which would: a) define a standard template for man pages in Linux. I know it would appear that one already exists, but it turns out that what really, really exists is a good overall description of what should be included in the man pages (in /usr/doc/HOWTO/Mini/Manpages), but that's leaves room for ambiguities, and I believe a template would be a very useful addition. b) begin the slow, laborious process of writing new manpages where they don't exist, then start re-formatting existing man pages to a standard template. Once that happens (this coudl take more than a year) then it seems to em the manpages would be ready for a major overhaul -- i.e., an automatic transformation into hypertext, which could/should be combined with a much more powerful indexing scheme than is currently available through apropos. Perhaps you know of some other progress on this issue. If so, I'd be interested to hear about it. BTW, I did write the man pages for the acct package myself, and have forwarded them to the author for comments and to the package maintainer. It turned out (no surprise) that in the process of doing this, I found a number of ambiguities and actual inaccuracies in the information that had existed. So it produced (I hope) some technical progress as well as straight information transfer. The package developer may take a few days yet, though, to go through all of the stuff I sent him and to change whatever needs changing. That's why you haven't heard more about it. Sorry for such a long email. Susan Kleinmann sgk@sgk.tiac.net > > I know the business of manpages for GNU software is a religious issue, > but tar seems to be missing one. > > A number of different linux systems have manpages for GNU tar, > although the tar package doesn't contain one as such. > > Could a manpage be maintained separately ? > > Austin > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to "Susan G. Kleinmann" : Extra info received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Information forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1801 . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From cam.ac.uk!and1000 Sat Nov 4 07:28:48 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0tBkWW-0006RYC; Sat, 4 Nov 95 07:28 PST Received: from black.csi.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA13249 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Sat, 4 Nov 1995 07:28:11 -0800 Received: from valour.pem.cam.ac.uk [131.111.200.47] (ident = root) by black.csi.cam.ac.uk with smtp (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0tBkWK-000CBtC; Sat, 4 Nov 95 15:28 GMT Received: by valour.pem.cam.ac.uk id m0tBkWE-000z6dC (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Sat, 4 Nov 95 15:28 GMT Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 15:28:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Austin Donnelly X-Sender: and1000@valour.pem.cam.ac.uk To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Subject: tar manpage missing Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I know the business of manpages for GNU software is a religious issue, but tar seems to be missing one. A number of different linux systems have manpages for GNU tar, although the tar package doesn't contain one as such. Could a manpage be maintained separately ? Austin ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to Austin Donnelly : New bug report received and forwarded. Your message didn't have a Package: line at the start (in the pseudo-header following the real mail header), or didn't have a psuedo-header at all. This makes it much harder for us to categorise and deal with your problem report; please ensure that you say which package(s) and version(s) the problem is with next time. Some time in the future the problem reports system may start rejecting such messages. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Report forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1801 . 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