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diff --git a/debian/POSIX-MANPAGES b/debian/POSIX-MANPAGES new file mode 100644 index 0000000..99aeba1 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/POSIX-MANPAGES @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +As of version 1.65 of man-pages, the upstream project this package is +based on, manual pages from the POSIX standard are included. The +man-pages project is permitted to distribute them and Andries Brouwer +assumes that re-distribution by vendors is permitted as well. + +However, modification is definitively not allowed, hence this great +contribution by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers +and The Open Group (see <http://linuxpr.com/releases/6599.html>) +rendered the entire man-pages package non-free. + +As of 1.66-1 release of the Debian package, the Debian maintainer +decided to strip non-free POSIX manual pages from manpages tarball. +In this way, this package continued to live in the main archive. + +Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie@debian.org> has packaged the +non-free POSIX manpages as manpages-posix which are distributed by the +Debian project in the non-free archive. + +Since 3.00 release (November'06), those POSIX manpages were +removed by upstream and allocated in a separated tarball. Therefore it +was no longer necessary to strip them. |