no gl manpages available

[Sven Herzberg]

Debian has got a package called xlibmesa-gl-dev which contains manpages for the OpenGL API. Ubuntu doesn't provide this information for installation.

[Barry deFreese (bddebian)]

xlibmesa-gl-dev has been replaced. Do you get this same behaviour with libgl1-mesa-dev or libgl-dev? Thank you.

[Sven Herzberg (herzi)]

I have libgl1-mesa-dev installed (and this one doesn't install the manpages which the Debian package xlibmesa-gl-dev contains on my debian machine).

[Drew Hess (dhess)]

My Dapper workstation has libgl1-mesa-dev, but I still don't have any OpenGL man pages.

[dhenry (tfc-duke)]

Yep, the very useful OpenGL manpages are missing... I wished when I was running Breezy that it would be fixed in Dapper, but it's not...

[Alex Cornejo (acornejoc)]

(bump) C'mon, how difficult can it be to add a new package with the man pages, or to include them in an already existing package. This BUG is pretty serious if you are a developer, and it seems to me that Linux has always been very attractive to developers/programmers, dont forget your base users.

[Matthew King (matthew-king)]

Not that I'm keen on "Me too" posts but .... me too!

I do remember them being in Debian before installing Dapper. Is there any reason why Dapper's packages are built without?

[Matthew King (matthew-king)]

A little investigation reveals that upstream Mesa, from sourceforge via mesa3d.org, doesn't contain them either and presumabely never did. My Debian installation used xorg but it may have had the odd xfree package laying around which contained these elusive manpages. I must confess I have no idea. They were there and that's all I cared about at the time. Now they're not and I'm confused.

I can't imagine there being license issues because Debian (rightly so) gets very uptight about that sort of thing. Is there anything to stop copying the manpages which are (I think) in XFree into Mesa?

[Philip Belemezov (phible)]

Well, me too!

Could some of the mainteners please investigate this issue. It's very, very annoying!

[Philip Belemezov (phible)]

The "official" manual pages are located at ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/opengl/doc/ in the mangl.tar.Z, manglu.tar.Z and manglx.tar.Z files. I don't see any problem with distributing them. Is it that difficult to create a deb out of them and add it to the repository?

[Helmut Duregger (helmutduregger)]

I would also love to see the manpages in Ubuntu again.

For the time being there is are nice howtos in the forums (not mine):
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1713220

[stormreaver (kubuntu-tonyobryan)]

I don't think the packagers understand how important these man pages are since this bug has been open without any official comment for over a year.