Brought up to date

diff --git a/README b/README
index 239f41532b281ff1b35bdca97f34a169c3b144cb..fa98fd9280600b684f71922c60ff25d814903b68 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This package contains the Linux man pages for all chapters
+This package contains Linux man pages for all sections
 except 1, 6 and 8. Some more information is given in the
 `Announce' file.
 
@@ -20,18 +20,10 @@ and about passwd.5, and mailaddr.7. Be careful not to
 overwrite more up-to-date versions.
 Reports on further duplicates are welcome.
 Formerly present and now removed duplicates:
- *_module.2, get_kernel_syms.2 (found in modutils-2.1.*),
  exports.5 (found in nfs-server-2.2*),
  fstab.5, nfs.5 (found in util-linux-2.12*),
  lilo.8, lilo.conf.5 (found in lilo-21.6*).
 
-Note that the pages that come with GNU fileutils are really
-help texts (indeed, are generated automatically from help texts),
-and worse than worthless. Without them people would have good
-detailed man pages, such as those found here in man1.
-As it is, many distributions install these "man pages",
-to the detriment of their users.
-
 Copyrights: These man pages come under various copyrights.
 For the POSIX pages, see the file POSIX-COPYRIGHT.
 All other pages are freely distributable when the nroff source is included.

diff --git a/man-pages-2.68.Announce b/man-pages-2.68.Announce
index aed2713fb10b96ca33fcfe48aab1818e2fe8ab70..8fa8666d86c0e71d8f0999ecfc6bd8fc63eefb65 100644 (file)
--- a/man-pages-2.68.Announce
+++ b/man-pages-2.68.Announce
@@ -19,10 +19,12 @@ or set the MANSECT environment variable.
 
 OTHER PAGES
 The remaining pages are most of the section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 man pages
-for Linux, and in addition section 1 man pages for the fileutils-4.0
-utilities, and section 5 and 8 man pages for the timezone utilities.
+for Linux.  A few pages are provided in sections 1 and 8 for commands
+that are not documented in other packages, and there are a few pages
+in sections 5 and 8 for the timezone utilities.
 
-[The latter were taken from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2001a.tar.gz.]
+[The timezone pages were taken from
+ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2001a.tar.gz.]
 [The section 3 man pages for the db routines have been taken from
 ftp://ftp.terra.net/pub/sleepycat/db.1.86.tar.gz.]
 [The rpc man pages were taken from the 4.4BSD-Lite CDROM.]
@@ -33,18 +35,19 @@ Here is a breakdown of what this distribution contains:
     Section 1p = POSIX utilities
     Section 3p = POSIX functions
 
-    Section 1 = user commands (intro, and pages not maintained by FSF)
+    Section 1 = user commands (intro, plus a few other pages)
     Section 2 = system calls
     Section 3 = libc calls
     Section 4 = devices (e.g., hd, sd)
     Section 5 = file formats and protocols (e.g., wtmp, /etc/passwd, nfs)
     Section 6 = games (intro only)
     Section 7 = conventions, macro packages, etc.
-    Section 8 = system administration (intro only)
+    Section 8 = system administration (intro, plus a few other pages)
 
-    Usually, there are no section 1, 6 and 8 man pages because these
-    should be distributed with the binaries they are written for.
-    Sometimes Section 9 is used for man pages describing parts of the kernel.
+    This package contains no, or very few, section 1, 6, and 8 man pages
+    because these should be distributed with the binaries they are written
+    for.  Sometimes Section 9 is used for man pages describing parts of
+    the kernel.
 
     Note that only Section 2 is rather complete, but Section 3 contains
     several hundred man pages.  If you want to write some man pages,