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mwoehlke wrote:
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> mwoehlke wrote:
>>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 01:10:11PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
>>>>> I have a modified Linux manpage almost ready to go; I assume that 
>>>>> goes to cygwin.patches?
>>>>
>>>> No, that would be appropriate only if the man page was found in the
>>>> winsup hierarchy.  The first line of printf(3) says "NEWLIB" when
>>>> I type "man 3 printf" so that's where a man page patch should go.
>>>
>>> Ok, that's what I kind-of thought... Hmm, shame on the newlib folks 
>>> for having such a poorly-up-to-date manpage. :-) Anyway, I guess this 
>>> means that gmane.comp.lib.newlib will suffice?
>>
>> If that equates to newlib at sources dot redhat dot com, then yes.  
> 
> http://gmane.org/list-address.php?group=gmane.comp.lib.newlib
> Seems to...
> 
>>> (But... this means what? If the newlib folks don't like it, Cygwin is 
>>> just stuck with a /wrong/ manpage?)
>>
>> Well, we could scold them mercilessly and send them to their rooms 
>> without
>> dinner. ;-)
>>
>> Let's not look for a problem that doesn't currently exist.
> 
> Well then, let's hope they accept it. And in a timely manner, would be 
> nice. :-)
> 
> Ok, so the other question... assuming it is accepted upstream tomorrow, 
> how long would it likely take to find its way into a Cygwin package?
> 


You'd see it as soon as the maintainer of the cygwin-doc package released
an update.


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