Hello Thorsten,

On 12/16/2016 03:36 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> 
>> On 12/16/2016 02:53 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>>> On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>>>
>>>> That doesn't document (upstream) reality though. Once upon a time,
>>>> there were one or two Section 9 pages in the man-pages
>>>> project. No one updated them or added new one in > 15 years,
>>>> and I deleted them years ago, as being out-of-date and useless.
>>>
>>> This is not a reason against restarting this section, though.
>>
>> There is no-one who will work on it. 
> 
> Excuse me for reading this as your statement being “I won’t work on it”

(Yep, it's true. Too much else to do, even if it would be interesting.)

> but you cannot say that “no-one” will. 

Yes, it's merely my prediction.

> For example, if the Debian
> maintainer of those manual pages considers this a good idea, they
> are free to work on this. One manpage at a time is good enough.

Sure. I just don't expect someone to step forward for that
task.

>> And, related to the current discussion, the Debian tmpfs-config
>> would not belong in that section.
> 
> Of course not. I stated something quite different:

I misunderstood.

>>> Hmm. So we could conceivably move the manpage about the
>>> tmpfs filesystem to section 9 as a Debian-local patch

But the same statement applies. The tmpfs filesystem page also
does not belong in section 9...

Have a good weekend!

Cheers,

Michael




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Michael Kerrisk
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