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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: [PATCH 2/4] man/{ncurses.3x,terminfo.head}: Drop version reporting from body text. |
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Sat, 16 Mar 2024 11:46:57 -0400 |
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 11:49:07AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> It's not necessary now that (as of patch 20230617) ncurses man pages put
> this information in the man page footer. (The patch level is omitted,
> but that too can be done.)
maybe not - in a perfect universe, users could identify versions of ncurses
without the patch level, but in practice having that information helps with
a lot of bug reports.
Here's another problematic site -
https://linux.die.net/man/3/ncurses
The only nice thing about that one is that it has the patch level :-)
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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
https://invisible-island.net
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