On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 at 21:54, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > Briefly... > > > And I also found a few weird files (such as zic.8 and zdump.8). > > Where do those come from? > > I'll try to rewrite them using man(7) markup. > > Stop!! These pages are special. They are periodically imported from > the tz project. It's an odd situation. Glibc imports these tools > from the tz project, but does not release manual pages. So, > periodically (when Paul Eggert reminds me), I resync the pages from > the tz project. In general, I try to just leave them alone (although > I have suggested a few fixes upstream to Paul), although I see > I have touched some of those pages in global edits. > > > In the meantime, > > I would also have to omit those files from the input to the script. > > Do you have a list of such files? > > AFAIR, the only other special page is bpf-helpers.7, which > is generated from the kernel source files using scripts. > Every few months, I try to remember to run the scripts > to resync. One more page that I forgot: tzfile.5 also comes from the tz project. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
