From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Date in emacs man-file
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 05:12:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkP3TcwZpoZQg0L5+jwUXbKHgejXMZ+xe6fBtqw-fYhzg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878sde2bn7.fsf@yandex.com>
Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:
> I notice the second line of the file man/emacs.1.in has "2007 April
> 13". Therefore "man emacs <RET>" will give this date at the foot of the
> manual, along side the emacs version (27.1 in the case of the latest
> release). Should not this date be amended to something more recent?
"man 7 man-pages" says:
date The date of the last nontrivial change that was made to the man
page. (Within the man-pages project, the necessary updates to
these timestamps are handled automatically by scripts, so there
is no need to manually update them as part of a patch.) Dates
should be written in the form YYYY-MM-DD.
Perhaps we could add a local timestamp variable to update it
automatically? It would catch even insignificant changes, but it would
be up to the committer to update the timestamp or not.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-13 12:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-13 10:50 Date in emacs man-file Colin Baxter
2020-09-13 12:12 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-09-16 11:24 ` Colin Baxter
2020-10-11 11:49 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-11 15:14 ` Colin Baxter
2020-10-12 19:05 ` Stefan Kangas
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