Re: Old 'man' (yells at cloud?)

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 04:17:17PM -0600, Jon Bailey wrote:
> As far as I can find - "man" mentioned in /FAQ has not had a release since 
> 2010.
> 
> Last snapshot of the old page - (2013-12-17)
> https://web.archive.org/web/20131217145929/http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/
> The one post to the Google Groups man-announce from the docs:
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/man-announce/XyBoOWbxuOA/0hxiCzbw3cAJ
> 
> The below patch corrects the dead URL in the FAQ.

Thanks for the patch.  A couple of minor points:

> diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ
> index 702fc562..00f8a85d 100644
> --- a/FAQ
> +++ b/FAQ
> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Frequently Asked Questions
>  Why use man-db instead of man?
>  ==============================
> 
> -The man (currently http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/) and man-db
> +The man (currently
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/doctools/man/) and man-db

We should probably use the https:// version of this URL.

> -    At the time of writing (February 2012), man-db has had ten full releases
> +    At the time of writing (May 2020), man-db has had forty full releases

I wasn't counting X.Y.Z.patch releases here, so the correct count would
be 34:

  $ egrep '^man-db [0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+ \(' NEWS | sed '/2007/,$d' | wc -l
  34

(I'm not very sure it's worth keeping this paragraph precisely up to
date.  It might be better to rewrite it entirely somehow.  However,
that's probably my job.)

>      since the start of 2008 with substantial feature work, while man has had
> -    one release with a few minor changes.
> +    two releases with a few minor changes.

Is this true?  Looking at
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/doctools/man/, only 1.6g seems to
have been made since the start of 2008.  (1.6f was released at the end
of 2007; perhaps you were misled by its .sig having been pushed a week
or so later?)

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [address@hidden]