Happy New MMXXVI. On 11/19/25 10:34, James Youngman wrote:
[ This is a reply to Branden, but some of the questions here are directed at Bernhard ]On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM G. Branden Robinson < [email protected]> wrote:Here's take two of my proposed man page changes.Thanks. I have imported these as a local branch and, I hope later this week, will take a closer look at them with a view to applying them. Among other reasons, that "closer look" is needed for my education, so that I don't subsequently reintroduce the goofs corrected in these patches. I haven't looked in about 10 years to be honest, [...]
I also have to confess that I never dug more into man page syntax than necessary. IMO it should be kept as simple as possible.
I hereby license all of these patches under CC0 1.0 Universal. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcodeBecause with git these patches each have their own independent existence also,* I will copy the above declaration into the git log message of each of your patches before applying/merging them*. I trust that this is OK.
yes, the CCO is fully compatible with the GPL: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CC0 Instead of copying the above license declaration, I would refer to the whole discussion [1], and add the usual "Copyright-paperwork-exempt: Yes" marker. I think this is sufficient since the non-whitespace content changes of all patches together are < 10 words. [1] https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-findutils/2025-11/msg00094.html
The other change I expect to make is a few small tweaks to line up the format of the change log messages with the style used in https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Style-of-Change-Logs.html;
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(Bernhard, if you don't feel it's necessary to follow the GNU Project's ChangeLog style guidance so closely, please say so; I don't think anybody would expect ChangeLog entries to be machine-parseable, after all, so perhaps this last change is not really necessary).
I did not look into the generated ChangeLog file for quite a while, and I doubt anyone else does (for findutils), because the user-visible changes are documented in NEWS file and the original commit logs are easily readable in Git. Now, I looked into the generated ChangeLog file, and it looks quite okay to me. Still, I massaged the commit messages a bit - mainly to always reference the full names of the changes files. The attached is the patchset I intend to apply. Comments? Have a nice day, Berny
findutils-manpage-patches.tar.gz
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