docs/90851: mdoc(7) manpage needs more FreeBSD versions

Ceri Davies ceri at submonkey.net
Mon Jan 2 17:30:21 UTC 2006


The following reply was made to PR docs/90851; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru at FreeBSD.org>,
 remko at FreeBSD.org,
 phk at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/90851: mdoc(7) manpage needs more FreeBSD versions 
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 17:23:53 +0000

 On 1 Jan 2006, at 23:00, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
 >  In message <20060101194413.GA73743 at elvandar.org>, Remko Lodder  
 > writes:
 >> On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 01:34:42PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
 >>>> Description:
 >>>
 >>> 	The mdoc(7) manual enumerates (pointlessly in my opinion) the  
 >>> various releases
 >>> 	of FreeBSD that can be specified to the Os and Fx macros:
 >>>
 >>>                   FreeBSD  1.0, 1.1, 1.1.5, 1.1.5.1, 2.0, 2.0.5,  
 >>> 2.1, 2.1.5,
 >>>                             2.1.6, 2.1.7, 2.2, 2.2.1, 2.2.2,  
 >>> 2.2.5, 2.2.6,
 >>>                             2.2.7, 2.2.8, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3,  
 >>> 3.4, 3.5, 4.0,
 >>>                             4.1, 4.1.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6,  
 >>> 4.6.2, 4.7,
 >>>                             4.8, 4.9, 4.10, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.2.1,  
 >>> 5.3
 >>>
 >>> 	The list should either be kept up to date, or more sensibly be  
 >>> replaced with
 >>>
 >>> 		FreeBSD  1.0, 1.1, 1.1.5, 2.0, 2.0.5, etc. etc.
 >>>
 >>>
 >>
 >> Hi Poul-Henning,
 >>
 >>   Does the diff below look reasonable?
 >
 >  Is it a more future proof solution to just list a handful and add  
 > "etc" ?
 
 We should ask Ruslan whether we can rely on them all being supported.
 
 Ceri



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