On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 07:03:27PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > However, i have seen at least one case where a senior developer > of a major Linux distro insisted on installing man(7) rather than > mdoc(7) versions even though the mdoc(7) versions are the master > and the man(7) versions autogenerated from them: Bdale Garbee > when packaging sudo(8) for Debian. I don't know why, though; > preferring man(7) doesn't seem to make sense to me. Also, it > doesn't appear to be a strict policy there; on a Debian system > i have access to, i see many mdoc(7) manuals in /usr/share/man/. The Debian OpenSSH packages just install mdoc(7). I have no idea why Bdale did that; I would guess it to be a response to some particular difficulty or other rather than a distribution policy, the latter of which it certainly is not. In any case, the current sudo packages in Debian unstable install mdoc(7) pages. -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx] _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
