[ITP] man-pages-linux 5.13

[Brian Inglis]

Hi folks,

I would like to provide Cygwin packages for the Linux kernel man pages 
project, for those who are concerned about interoperability and 
portability, from Michael Kerrisk (http://man7.org/), who also releases 
man-pages-posix, and just released Linux man-pages 5.13.

I do it for my own use anyway, to have the latest docs, just to save 
flipping to Linux from Cygwin or Windows.

Comments, feedback, issues, opinions, thoughts, suggestions?

I have other approaches I could consider for others' convenience:

* the standard approach where each new release of man-pages-linux 
obsoletes the previous; or

* allowing parallel installs with each release under it's own versioned 
package man-pages-linux-5.?? and subdirectory and postinstall symlink 
linux to the last installed; or

* use update-alternatives to select the release, with the default the 
highest version as usual?

Comments, feedback, issues, opinions, thoughts, suggestions?

The install location is under the standard /usr/share/man/linux{,-5.??} 
which can only by default be used by specifying

	$ man -m|--systems linux ...

but can also be added explicitly to a users MANPATH or alias e.g.

	$ alias man='man -m man,linux'

or swap the order to prioritize Linux, or for parallel installs add each 
in your preferred order.

Comments, feedback, issues, opinions, thoughts, suggestions?

I have Linux 5.05-5.13 packages available for review as man-pages-linux:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1r3vhlN4fsCAGAtxpVD9PJPVpahCmnIPE

Comments, feedback, issues, opinions, thoughts, suggestions?

If there is sufficient interest in other man-pages-* packages that I 
could contemplate offering similarly, I also have kept around *a* 
release of each of the below currently linked under my
/usr/local/share/man/ and others may be available including HOW-TOs:

CentOS-7.1      Darwin-7.0.1    HP-UX-11.22     RedHat-9-i386 
SunOS-5.10	Suse-11.3
FreeBSD-12-current      FreeBSD-ports-11.1-RELEASE      NetBSD-7.1 
OpenBSD-6.2
X11R7.4

although I am unsure about the availability of releases for some.

Comments, feedback, issues, opinions, thoughts, suggestions?

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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