[Mageia-dev] Switch to man-db

Mon Jun 18 15:53:06 CEST 2012

Oliver Burger <oliver.bgr at ...> writes:
+> I saw at 
+>
+http://svn.mandriva.com/viewvc/packages/cooker/man/current/SPECS/man.spec?r1=666363&r2=791691
+> that Mdv did switch from the old flat text based man pages to the 
+> berkley db based man-db.
+> According to http://nongnu.org/man-db/ several larger distros did switch 
+> some time ago as well.
+> So what do you think, should we follow them as well? I have yet to 
+> really look into it, but I wanted to ask for opinions first, so I won't 
+> be spending my time on nothing.
+
+Yes, there are a few packages where other distros have switched to different
+upstreams and we have fallen behind.  This is one of them that I had noticed,
+and I do think we should follow suit.
+
+Another is procps, and I already asked about this on this list and people
+were in favor of switching to the new upstream, I just haven't gotten around
+to working on it yet.
+
+Another one I discovered is utempter.  Fedora and some others have switched to
+a new upstream (who calls it libutempter, but the Fedora package name is still
+utempter).
+
+I think Mandriva may have switched to a different upstream of libjpeg as well.
+
+