Extended Attributes Manpages Missing

[Nikolaus Rath]

Binary package hint: manpages

It would be great if the manpages documentating extended attributes (setxattr, getxattr, attr, listxattr etc.) could be made available on Ubuntu systems. Online they are available from e.g. http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/lsetxattr.2.html or http://linux.die.net/man/5/attr, but I don't know if the license allows to use these versions).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Dependencies: manpages 3.15-1
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: manpages-dev 3.15-1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: manpages
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-14-generic i686

[Matt Arnold (mattarnold5)]

Thank you for reporting a bug, and helping to make Ubuntu better

Please install manpages-dev, and see if you get the desired documentation

Closing for now feel free to reopen if you still have problems

[Nikolaus Rath (nikratio)]

Thank you for trying to help with bug management.

As you can see from the 'apport-bug' tag (and the general format of the bug), this bug was reported with the ubuntu-bug tool against the package 'manpages-dev', which is installed on the reporter's system with version 3.15. You can therefore pretty much rely on the desired documentation not being in manpages-dev.

Even if you were not able to see this information from the bug report, I think there was really no need to ask the original reporter to check if the manpages-dev package contains the files. You could easily have done this yourself.

Finally, why are you setting a bug to 'Invalid' if you have not even made the smallest attempt to reproduce the issue? I appreciate your good intentions, but this way of "handling" bugs is actually increasing the workload for others rather than reducing it. Bug tracking is not about closing bugs as fast as possible, but about resolving them.

Please do not let me discourage you from helping to make Ubuntu better. But your efforts will be much more appreciated if you first take a look at the information on e.g. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToTriage.

[Nikolaus Rath (nikratio)]

To make this explicit: the missing manpages are *not* included in manpages-dev, that is why I opened this bug.

[Matt Arnold (mattarnold5)]

First I'm not new to Ubuntu bug triaging, nor MOTU

True i shouldn't have set it to invalid sorry about that, mate. I was trying to do too much at once, and made a mistake. Again I am truly sorry.

[Stéphane Aulery (lkppo)]

These pages are included in the package manpages sources and "libattr1-dev". The manpages package maintainer decide not to install the version shipped with its package.

See:

- https://sources.debian.net/src/manpages/3.74-1/debian/inst/#L74
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=456676
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=207331

[Stéphane Aulery (lkppo)]

We can not do anything at distribution level, closing the bug at best. It would be best to contact the two upstream projects to find a compromise on a single version if possible.