Re: Not sure how to best reply re: dir_colors situation

[Pádraig Brady]

Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> 2009/6/8 Pádraig Brady <address@hidden>:
>> Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>>> 2009/6/7 Pádraig Brady <address@hidden>:
>>>> So I guess the middle ground is best of "not enable by default",
>>>> though that will require adding documentation for the option.
>>>> That's probably best to add in the dir_colors man page which
>>>> is part of the linux man pages collection.
>>>> Hmm, would this page be better located in coreutils?
>>> This page has always seemed a bit of an oddity in man-pages. If
>>> coreutils wants to adopt it, I'm happy to pass ownership of it over.
>> Yes it would fit better in coreutils I think (even though
>> it's in section 5). What's the process for transitioning
>> files like this. I.E. how do we minimize conflicts for
>> distro packagers?
> 
> I'm not sure that there is a lot we can do here, other than noting the
> transition in our respective release notes.
> 
> (I'm still not clear if coreutils wants to take ownership of the page 
> though...)

Yes please. I think it's better, as the current page references fileutils-4.1:
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man5/dir_colors.5.html

It's probably best if you don't do anything for now.
That will allow us to add the updated page to coreutils and packagers
can give precedence to it.

cheers,
Pádraig.