On 16 Mar 2022 18:27, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > On 3/16/22 14:14, John Marshall wrote: > > At https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/ it appears that no new commits have been pushed since early September 2021. However here in the linux-man mailing list archives, it appears that changes are continuing to be applied as usual. > > > > I didn't find anything in the mailing list archives discussing this or mentioning a change in repository location. Is there something I'm missing about where to find an up-to-date Git repository for the Linux man pages? > > I keep updating the repository on my own git server, > <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/linux/man-pages/man-pages.git/>. > That's where patches to the mailing list are being merged since half a > year ago. > > However, we haven't released any new versions since then. > There's only the git repository, > which you can use to get the freshest manual pages, > or prepare new patches against them. > > We (the maintainers) haven't had much time to prepare a release, > but the official (kernel.org) repository > will get updated some time in the future. please keep the canonical git repo up-to-date. it's what everyone is using, and it shouldn't be updated only when releases are pushed. no one is going to find your personal server, and if they did, i don't see why anyone would trust it as the canonical source. -mike
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