Re: xsrc/44034: man page X(7) is missing

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR xsrc/44034; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: xsrc/44034: man page X(7) is missing
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:43:06 +0000

 On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 12:05:00AM +0000, 
neitzel%marshlabs.gaertner.de@localhost wrote:
 > >Number:         44034
 > >Category:       xsrc
 > >Synopsis:       man page X(7) is missing
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    xsrc-manager
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          doc-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Thu Nov 04 00:05:00 +0000 2010
 > >Originator:     Martin Neitzel
 > >Release:        NetBSD 5.1_RC4
 > >Organization:
 > Marshlabs
 > >Environment:
 > System: NetBSD nebby.gaertner.de 5.1_RC4 NetBSD 5.1_RC4 (GENERIC) #0: Mon 
 > Sep 13 20:20:21 UTC 2010 
 > builds%b6.netbsd.org@localhost:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-1-RC4/amd64/201009140238Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-1-RC4/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
 >  amd64
 > Architecture: x86_64
 > Machine: amd64
 > X flavour: X.org
 > 
 > >Description:
 >      The X(7) man page has gone AWOL in the Xorg system.
 
 No, it was never there in the first place.
 
 >      It was seen last on XFree86-based systems (NetBSD-4.x/i386
 >      over here).  X(7) isn't related to any specific command
 >      but introduces various general, fundamental concepts of
 >      the X Window System.  Many other man pages (Xserver, Xorg,
 >      xterm, xclock, xrdb, ...) refer to it via SEE ALSO.
 
 Correct. It is part of "xsrc/xfree" (XFree86) but not part of
 "xsrc/external/mit" (X.org). The problems is that we never
 imported the "xorg-docs" package availalable here:
 
        http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/doc/
 
 The missing manual page is e.g. in the "xorg-docs-1.5.tar.bz2" file:
 
        tron@colwyn:~/Downloads>tar tjvf xorg-docs-1.5.tar.bz2|grep X.man
        -rw-r--r--  1 50758    staff      53784 Oct 16  2009 
xorg-docs-1.5/man/general/X.man
        tron@colwyn:~/Downloads>
 
        Kind regards
 
 -- 
 Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/