Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> writes: > In some upstream packages I put the version number in that field, which > at least provide some of the out-of-date protection.
There are two standard footer locations for this kind of information in UNIX man pages, one of which is traditionally used for the version and the other of which is traditionally used for the date. I assume you don't mean that you put the version number in both places. What .TH structure do you use? -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

