[Bug 18574] Re: /etc/environment lacks man page.

[Ralph Corderoy]

No, environ(7) documents the "char **environ" symbol that program can
expect to find and that contain environment variables.  That's not
connected to environment(5) that describes a file format for a file that
contains environment variables, e.g. are comments allowed.  Other
problems stated by this bug would also not be fixed by saying environ(7)
is the solution, e.g. is /etc/environment owned by a package yet.

Can someone with the rights please set this back Triaged.

** Changed in: manpages (Ubuntu)
       Status: Invalid => Confirmed

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Title:
  /etc/environment lacks man page.

Status in manpages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  There's no environment(5) man page.  No package seems to own it.

      $ dpkg -S /etc/environment
      dpkg: /etc/environment not found.
      $ cat /etc/environment
      LANGUAGE="en_GB:en"
      LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
      $

  Without a man page, it's unclear what purpose it has, e.g. at what times
  is it read, and what format it has, e.g. are comments allowed, what
  about quoting, etc.

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