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Re: coreutils 8.5-2: lacks /usr/share/man/man1/[.1.gz


On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 09:59:17AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
>Am 14.12.2010 02:59, schrieb Christopher Faylor:
>> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 04:45:11AM +0300, Andrey Repin wrote:
>>>Greetings, Eric Blake!
>>>
>>>>> coreutils 8.5-2 does not install a man page for the "[" command in section 1.
>>>>> This could/should be a symlink to test (test.1 contains the necessary
>>>>> documentation), or a trivial roff file containing .so man1/test.1 (untested).
>>>
>>>> Upstream coreutils does not provide a [.1 man page, even though it does
>>>> provide a test.1 man page.  On Fedora, test.1 is from coreutils, while
>>>> [.1 is an alias to the bash builtins man page.  I could repeat that
>>>> setup in cygwin, since I already create bash builtin alias pages for
>>>> other bash builtins, like shopt.1.
>>>
>>>That, probably, would be most desirable choice.
>> 
>> I beginning to think that we need a new mailing list to discuss issues relating
>> to '[' .  Clearly 2011 will be the Year of the Left Bracket.
>
>You could take this a bit more serious.  Lack of documentation isn't something
>to joke about.

Cwealy you don't know me vewy well.

[cgf

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