Obsolete man pages

[Janne Blomqvist]

The squashfs-tools package includes 3rd party manpages dating back to 2012, however in the meantime the upstream squashfs-tools project has created it's own manpages which are more up to date. (For instance, the squashfs-tools supports more compression algorithms than mentioned in the current manpages, but are mentioned in the upstream manpages.)

[Alex Murray (alexmurray)]

squashfs-tools only introduced the manpages upstream in version 4.5 - and the Ubuntu releases that ship squashfs-tools >= 4.5 use these upstream manpages. Can you describe what Ubuntu releases and squashfs-tools versions you are referring to?

[Janne Blomqvist (blomqvist-janne)]

This is squashfs-tools 1:4.5-3build1 on Ubuntu 22.04. It contains the old manpages for mksquashfs and unsquashfs, and the manpages for sqfscat and sqfstar are missing (which are present in upstream).

[Alex Murray (alexmurray)]

FYI these manpages are not present on the upstream 4.5 release - https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools/tree/4.5 - only in 4.5.1 and onwards - so there is no divergence from the upstream release in Ubuntu.

[Janne Blomqvist (blomqvist-janne)]

Oh, I didn't realize the upstream manpages were that new. Still, would be nice if these could be backported to the version in 22.04 LTS.