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

[Matthias Andree <matthias dot andree at gmx dot de>]

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.

-- 
Matthias Andree

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