Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 409651
Missing manpages
Last modified: 2007-12-11 07:02:35 EST
Description of problem: Package does not contain manual pages Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4.0-11 Steps to Reproduce: 1. man glutInit Actual results: no manpage for glutInit Expected results: displaying manual page of glutInit function Additional info: opensuse contains it, so we can take it easily from them (http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/opensuse/10.3/i586/freeglut-devel-060903-79.i586.html)
The manpages shipped by opensuse come from the original GLUT by Mark J. Kilgard, which is under the following license: NOTICE: The OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) distribution contains source code published in a book titled "Programming OpenGL for the X Window System" (ISBN: 0-201-48359-9) published by Addison-Wesley. The programs and associated files contained in the distribution were developed by Mark J. Kilgard and are Copyright 1994, 1995, 1996 by Mark J. Kilgard (unless otherwise noted). The programs are not in the public domain, but they are freely distributable without licensing fees. These programs are provided without guarantee or warrantee expressed or implied. Notice that this license does not allow modification, which is not acceptable to Fedora, therefor these pages cannot be shipped by Fedora.
Re-opening, as discussed in a private mail the man-pages shipped with openglut describe the same API and thus are usable, also see: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=961941&group_id=1032&atid=351032 Although upstream doesn't seem inclined to include them, there is no reason why we cannot ship them as part of freeglut-devel, so when I find some time I'll add this to the freeglut package: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/openglut/openglut-0.6.3-doc.tar.gz And include the manpages therein in the -devel package.
Tomorrow's rawhide push will contain freeglut-2.4.0-12.fc9, which fixes this, closing.