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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?

-- 
Matthew
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