Bug#604990: clarify man page dates policy

2010-11-26 Thread jidanni
> "H" == Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: H> There is no need. This is documented in man-pages(7). Ah, maybe the policy doc should just mention "See also man-pages(7)". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Bug#604990: clarify man page dates policy

2010-11-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 26 Nov 2010, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > The Debian Policy Manual should state what the preferred date on manual > pages should be, or wishes upstream would make it. There is no need. This is documented in man-pages(7). It is the date the manpage was last revised. > Also mention if Deb

Bug#604990: clarify man page dates policy

2010-11-25 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 22:29 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > jida...@jidanni.org writes: > >> "RA" == Russ Allbery writes: > > > RA> No, I don't believe that it should. I don't think this is something > > that > > RA> we need to make technical Policy about. > > > RA> I'll leave this bug open f

Bug#604990: clarify man page dates policy

2010-11-25 Thread Russ Allbery
jida...@jidanni.org writes: >> "RA" == Russ Allbery writes: > RA> No, I don't believe that it should. I don't think this is something that > RA> 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

Re: Bug#604990: clarify man page dates policy

2010-11-25 Thread Ben Finney
jida...@jidanni.org writes: > > "RA" == Russ Allbery 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. > > Well then please add in the manual that Debian officially has no > opinion on dates on the man pages,

Bug#604990: clarify man page dates policy

2010-11-25 Thread jidanni
> "RA" == Russ Allbery writes: RA> No, I don't believe that it should. I don't think this is something that RA> 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 o

Bug#604990: clarify man page dates policy

2010-11-25 Thread Russ Allbery
jida...@jidanni.org writes: > The Debian Policy Manual should state what the preferred date on manual > pages should be, or wishes upstream would make it. No, I don't believe that it should. I don't think this is something that we need to make technical Policy about. I'll leave this bug open fo

Bug#604990: clarify man page dates policy

2010-11-25 Thread jidanni
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.