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authorAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2023-04-10 01:55:02 +0200
committerAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2023-04-10 02:53:09 +0200
commit890adb523bd9c7638097cb460038389b545fe469 (patch)
tree2a72847d94d50905d81c30c0274c0d3e7ce14f60
parentc615a67d7ada67c97ab0db64bbc9733ed39a0791 (diff)
README: Reorganize, and add some info
- Add "History" section, with a link to aeb's website with man-pages-1.* tarballs. - Move "Maintainers" to a subsection in the new "History" section. - Organize "Versions" into subsections ("Tarballs", "Git", and "Online pages"). - Add links to the cgit websites of the git repositories. - Add link to the PDF online man-pages book. - wsfix in mtk's entry. Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/README b/README
index f5ce47155..82794e348 100644
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+++ b/README
@@ -59,32 +59,43 @@ Files
Default directory for files created by the build system.
Versions
- Tarballs of releases starting from 2.00 are available at
- <https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/>.
+ Tarballs
+ <https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/>
- The git(1) repository can be found at:
+ Git
<git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git>
+ <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/>
A secondary git(1) repository can be found at:
<git://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/linux/man-pages/man-pages.git>
+ <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/linux/man-pages/man-pages.git/>
-Caveats
- Some projects provide their own manual pages, not related to the Linux
- man-pages project.
+ Online man-pages
+ PDF
+ <https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/book/>
-Bugs
- See the <CONTRIBUTING> file.
+History
+ Tarballs
+ Tarballs of man-pages-1.* releases are available at:
+ <https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/ftpdocs/linux-local/manpages.archive/>
-Maintainers
+ Maintainers
Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
2020 - present (5.09 - HEAD)
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> <https://man7.org/>
- 2004 - 2021 (2.00 - 5.13)
+ 2004 - 2021 (2.00 - 5.13)
Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl> <https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb>
1995 - 2004 (1.6 - 1.70)
Rik Faith <https://www.cs.unc.edu/~faith/>
1993 - 1995 (1.0 - 1.5)
+Caveats
+ Some projects provide their own manual pages, not related to the Linux
+ man-pages project.
+
+Bugs
+ See the <CONTRIBUTING> file.
+
Copyright
Several free/open source licenses. See the <LICENSES/> directory, and
the comment at the top of each source file.