Happy new Sun (was: man-pages-6.02 released)

[Alejandro Colomar]

Hi!!

On 12/22/22 20:39, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Gidday!
>
> I'm proud to announce:
>
>      man-pages-6.02 - manual pages for GNU/Linux

I hope this is really my last release in an unsigned long long time[1].  You can 
take it as a Christmas present :)  Now, I'm officially waiting for groff-1.23 to 
be released to declare it as a dependency.  Deri sent me a present for 
Christmas, and it would be a much smaller and better present if groff 1.23 was 
out...  just sayin'. :P

My plan going forward (man-pages-6.03), although there's not much of a plan:

-  Don't release for 2 years or so, until a few months before the freeze for 
Debian trixie.

-  Migrate to MR macros after groff-1.23 is in Debian.[2]

-  Provide a PDF book of the Linux man-pages (actually, Deri did this; I'll just 
help polish it).

Cheers,

Alex

[1] The hell won't freeze before the next one, but I hope at least Debian 
freezes ;)

[2] We know that the plan of not releasing, so in case I have to release, having 
sufficient groff in Debian should be enough.  Other releases either move faster, 
so they'll also have it, or they should read the list of dependencies and/or the 
release notes before upgrading.  Something important like the string issue might 
make me release again with some completely rewritten pages for who-knows-what...

> The release tarball is already available on <kernel.org>.
>
> Tarball download:
>       <https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/>
> Git repository:
>       <https://git.kernel.org/cgit/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/>
>
> The most notable changes in this release are the following:
>
> -  Rewritten pages for string-copying functions.  These now use
>     consistent language.  Also added a new string_copying(7) page that
>     serves as an overview of all such functions, compares them, and
>     details which is appropriate for which uses.
>
> -  Use _Nullable for documenting which functions accept NULL as a
>     meaningful value in the function prototypes in the SYNOPSIS.
>
> -  Use VLA syntax for documenting function parameters that are treated
>     as arrays.  This uses syntax not accepted by compilers.
>
> -  Rewritten repository documentation (README, CONTRIBUTING, INSTALL, ...).
>
> -  Documentation for new APIs, such as MADV_COLLAPSE in madvise(2).
>
> Thank you all for contributing.
>
> -  There's also a repository change that is not part of this release:  Historic 
> versions of the project going back to man-pages-1.0 have been added to the git 
> repository in a 'prehistory' branch.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex
>
> ==================== Changes in man-pages-6.02 ====================
>
> Released: 2022-12-22, Aldaya

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