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and subject line Re: Bug#604990: clarify man page dates policy
has caused the Debian Bug report #604990,
regarding clarify man page dates policy
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X-debbugs-Cc: man...@packages.debian.org, rad...@cox.net
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.9.1.0
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch-docs.html
The Debian Policy Manual should state what the preferred date on manual
pages should be, or wishes upstream would make it.
*The date any new version of the package was released?
*The date any changes to the man page were made?
*The date any significant changes to the man page were made?
*etc. etc.
Also mention if Debian maintainers should tamper with upstreams' date, or only
maybe when they add things to the man page.
By 'dates' I am talking about the
$ man -w cat|xargs zcat|sed 2!d
.TH CAT "1" "April 2010" "GNU coreutils 8.5" "User Commands"
line. Which brings up another item to mention: just month and year OK,
or must add date?
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Andrew McMillan <and...@morphoss.com> writes:
> On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 22:29 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> jida...@jidanni.org writes:
>> >>>>>> "RA" == Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes:
>>> RA> No, I don't believe that it should. I don't think this is
>>> RA> something that we need to make technical Policy about.
>>> RA> I'll leave this bug open for a bit before closing in case someone else
>>> RA> disagrees.
>>> Well then please add in the manual that Debian officially has no
>>> opinion on dates on the man pages, and one is free to do as one feels
>>> fit on the matter.
>> I don't see the need for Policy to say anything about this, personally.
>> This seems rather cosmetic to be addressed in Policy.
> Seconded.
And now closing per the previous discussion.
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Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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