[Skiboot] [PATCH] Move sbin commands manpages from section 1 to 8

Stewart Smith stewart at flamingspork.com
Mon Sep 2 03:03:30 AEST 2019


On Fri, Aug 23, 2019, at 12:53 AM, Dan Horák wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 18:09:23 +0200
> Frédéric Bonnard <frediz at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > Following Debian's lintian suggestion :
> > https://lintian.debian.org/tags/command-in-sbin-has-manpage-in-incorrect-section.html
> > 
> > "The command in /sbin or /usr/sbin are system administration commands;
> > their manpages thus belong in section 8, not section 1.
> > 
> > Please check whether the command is actually useful to non-privileged
> > user in which case it should be moved to /bin or /usr/bin, or
> > alternatively the manual page should be moved to section 8 instead,
> > ie. /usr/share/man/man8."
> > 
> > Those commands are, I suppose, in the right directory according to
> > what their usage is. So I changed the section of their manpage to
> > section 8.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Frédéric Bonnard <frediz at debian.org>
> 
> LGTM, but the question also is, whether (all?) the tools couldn't be
> moved into "bin" instead.

opal-gard is probably the most sysdmin command there.

others are more developer oriented.


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