Bug#978552: 978552: conventions for writing Linux man pages

2021-02-05 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hi Felix, On 2021-02-06 00:13, Felix Lechner wrote: > Hi Andrius, > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 1:57 AM Andrius Merkys wrote: >> Within the man-pages project, the necessary updates to these timestamps >> are handled automatically > I like your idea, but how can the dates—being handled >

Bug#978552: 978552: conventions for writing Linux man pages

2021-02-05 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Andrius, On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 1:57 AM Andrius Merkys wrote: > > Within the man-pages project, the necessary updates to these timestamps > are handled automatically I like your idea, but how can the dates—being handled automatically—ever be wrong? Do the scripts neglect to adjust manual

Bug#978552: 978552: conventions for writing Linux man pages

2021-02-05 Thread Andrius Merkys
As explained in [1], there actually are conventions for writing man pages given in 'man 7 man-pages'. Thus .TH line can be trusted to contain the date of last non-trivial change: date: The date of the last nontrivial change that was made to the man page. (Within the man-pages project, the