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author | Marcos Fouces <marcos@debian.org> | 2022-12-31 00:01:01 +0100 |
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committer | Marcos Fouces <marcos@debian.org> | 2022-12-31 00:01:01 +0100 |
commit | 40e4137242cf490e37b799b5aeea2c3f8b5088d5 (patch) | |
tree | b620483d78cd6068e03ac786f1090c3afe2962a9 | |
parent | c72367342fab8e81390d024d24f0ddb087c5e4fc (diff) |
All content of d/README.Debian is redundant, obsolete or inaccurate so it is better to remove it.
-rw-r--r-- | debian/README.Debian | 27 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 2 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian deleted file mode 100644 index b853b9683..000000000 --- a/debian/README.Debian +++ /dev/null @@ -1,27 +0,0 @@ -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 -Nicolás 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, ttytype.5, passwd.5 - -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. diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 410ecf968..1232f278e 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ manpages (6.02-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium ~ Fix mismatched overrides by fixing line numbering of occurrences. * d/copyright: update running d/update-copyright. + * d/README.Debian: all its content is redundant, obsolete + or inaccurate so it is better to remove it. -- Marcos Fouces <marcos@debian.org> Wed, 28 Dec 2022 18:04:08 +0100 |