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Date:      Wed, 26 May 2021 17:24:23 +0200
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org>
To:        =?UTF-8?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=C3=ADa?= <fernape@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Inclusion of all manual pages in all architecture releases
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On Wed, 26 May 2021 at 17:09, Fernando Apestegu=C3=ADa <fernape@freebsd.org=
> wrote:
>
> I don't know what list this should be sent to, apologies if the
> audience is too wide.
>
> For some time now, we have not included all manual pages in every
> FreeBSD packaged release. For instance, i386 man pages are not
> included in the FreeBSD amd64 distribution.
>
> This causes a number of problems:
>
> * The https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi is incomplete. As an
> example, it does not show results for pae(4). The reason for this is
> that the cgi interface runs on FreeBSD amd64.
>
> * In FreeBSD amd64 some manual pages have broken X-refs. See hptrr(4)
> for an example.
>
> * Also, we have broken links in our Release Notes. This is a
> consequence of the first point. See
> https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/hardware/#proc-i386.
>
> Is there a specific reason for this?

I think this is a bug in our build system, starting at FreeBSD 10.x

NetBSD ships all manual pages for all architectures in their package
sets, and we should do the same.

-Wolfram

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