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Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Database-driven manual pager suite
From: |
Jaime E . Villate |
Subject: |
Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Database-driven manual pager suite - savannah.gnu.org |
Date: |
Tue, 17 Sep 2002 12:48:37 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.2.5i |
Hi Colin,
Your project has been approved in Savannah and you should have received a
message notifying you of that.
Please correct the licensing of man-db:
There should be correct copyright notices and copying permission
statements at the beginning of every source-code file, as
explained in http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html
Cheers,
Jaime
On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 12:29:55PM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
>
> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
>
>
> Colin Watson <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License:
> Package: Database-driven manual pager suite
> System name: man-db
> Type: non-GNU
>
> Description:
> man-db is a suite of software for viewing and managing traditional Unix
> manual pages. It was originally written in the early 1990s. It provides the
> following commands:
>
> man (the primary way of reading manual pages)
> apropos (search for text in manual page headers)
> whatis (print a short summary of a manual page)
> mandb (build a database of all installed manual pages)
> catman (format and store plain-text versions of manual pages)
> zsoelim (eliminate .so includes from manual pages)
> accessdb (dump a manual page database)
> lexgrog (check the validity of manual page headers)
>
> The purpose of the project is to develop and maintain this suite, aiming for
> a maximum of usability and stability.
>
> For historical reasons, there are two major free software implementations of
> man. This one is used by a number of GNU/Linux distributions, including
> Debian and SuSE, and by Debian GNU/Hurd.
>
> man-db is currently hosted on SourceForge, but since I\'m increasingly
> uncomfortable with their attitude towards free software I would like to move
> it to Savannah.
>
> The bug list for man-db is at:
> http://bugs.debian.org/man-db
> Its (skeleton) web page is at:
> http://man-db.sourceforge.net/
>
> You can download the latest distribution at:
> ftp://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/man-db/man-db-2.4.0.tar.gz
> and current CVS is here:
> :pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/man-db
> (empty password, module man-db)
>
> Other Software Required:
> An nroff/troff implementation (GNU groff recommended)
> Berkeley DB (tested with db2 and db3)
>
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