[Bug 326314] Re: no console.4 man page

[aeb]

Still broken in Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS.
The package console-tools has never been the upstream author of console.4, and it is broken and obsolete.
Nobody wants to install it.
The upstream author of console.4 is  the manpages package, and it is a bug to explicitly remove a useful page from it, especially since other pages refer to it.

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Title:
  no console.4 man page

Status in “manpages” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: manpages

  [on my Intrepid machine]

  % man 4 console
  No manual entry for console in section 4

  [elsewhere]
  % man 4 console
  NAME
         console - console terminal and virtual consoles

  DESCRIPTION
         A  Linux  system  has up to 63 virtual consoles (character devices with
         major number 4 and minor number 1 to 63), usually called /dev/ttyn with
  ...
  COLOPHON
         This  page  is  part of release 3.14 of the Linux man-pages project.

  A console.4 man page has been in the manpages package since 1994. Several other man pages refer to it:
  console_codes.4, console_ioctl.4, tty.4, vcs.4, charsets.7.
  Maybe this page was taken from the obsolete-from-the-start console-tools package that is no longer installed?
  It belongs to manpages.

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