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- This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of the Linux
- manual pages. These pages were originally maintained by Rik Faith
- and then taken over by Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>.
-
- This package was initially put together for Debian GNU/Linux by
- Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org> and updated by
- Nicolßs Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>.
-
- This package contain the Linux man pages for all chapters
- except 1, 6 and 8.
-
- Some pages present in the upstream version were removed because a better
- version exists in other package. These pages are:
-
- manpages:
- console.4, fd.4, vcs.4, fstab.5, nfs.5,
- exports.5, ttytype.5, passwd.5
-
- manpages-dev:
- modules.2, get_kernel_syms.2, create_module.2,
- init_module.2, delete_module.2
-
- This package doesn't include section 1 manpages included in the upstream
- package. The upstream manpages author decided to include GNU utils
- non-official manpages here, as the FSF doesn't want to maintain them. I
- agree with him, but these manpages should be added to the corresponding
- Debian package of the GNU utilities, not here.
-
- Having manpages is very important to every operating system. It is much
- work to keep those documents up to date and to initially write them.
- Nevertheless some folks made some of this work. Contributions are
- welcome.
-