Re: pic anomalies

[Federico Lucifredi]

My bad — I should have checked the ownership of the page itself. Maintaining 
man (1) makes me the recipient of many similar bug reports that need 
redirection, and I have a fast trigger finger as a result. 

Thanks for setting me straight.

Best-F

Sent from my iPhone.

> On Dec 27, 2019, at 2:18 PM, Ingo Schwarze <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hi Federico,
> 
> Federico Lucifredi wrote on Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 01:31:00PM -0500:
> 
>> for (1), I am CCing Michael Kerrisk
> 
> fortunately, you forgot to, unless you used Bcc:.
> 
>> and the procedure to report issues on the man pages is tracked here
>> https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html (In brief:
>> email address@hidden and CC address@hidden).
> 
> That is badly misleading because it only applies to man pages
> contained in the Linux man pages project, but not to man pages
> in general.  The latest release of the Linux man pages project
> does not contain a pic(1) manual:
> 
>  schwarze@man $ man -M /var/www/man/Linux-5.03 pic   
>  man: No entry for pic in the manual.
> 
> The pic(1) manual page Doug is talking about is almost certainly
> src/preproc/pic/pic.1.man in our very own groff source tree, and
> we are free to edit it as we see fit in case we find it to be
> defective.
> 
> Yours,
>  Ingo
> 
> P.S.
> Besides, trying to educate Doug on how bug reporting works feels
> slightly funny.  I'm sure he has at least 50 years of extensive
> experience with that, if not more.  :-)
>