Man pages .Dd

[Florent Thoumie]

Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 03:37:12PM +0300, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 10:11:57AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> G> On Wednesday, 29 November 2006 at 20:24:57 +0000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> G> > alfred      2006-11-29 20:24:57 UTC
>> G> >
>> G> >   FreeBSD src repository
>> G> >
>> G> >   Modified files:
>> G> >     share/man/man9       uio.9
>> G> >   Log:
>> G> >   Bump .Dd, (9 year jump!)
>> G> >
>> G> >   Requested by: ru
>> G> 
>> G> This happened to me too last week.  I'm hazy about when, but my
>> G> understanding has been that in the past .Dd *didn't* automatically get
>> G> updated.  When should it be, when shouldn't it be?  If it should be
>> G> automatic, we should write a macro which sets it from $FreeBSD$.
>>
>> No. Only text changes bump .Dd. Style, spelling, wording and markup
>> do not.
>>
> Sometimes even editorial changes are so large that deserve a bump.
> A common sense actually applies, but for content changes we usually
> want to bump the date.  The comment in the example manpages is
> supposed to hint about this:
> 
> .\" $FreeBSD: src/share/examples/mdoc/example.4,v 1.21.2.2 2006/06/05 19:31:57 brueffer Exp $
> .\"
> .\" Note: The date here should be updated whenever a non-trivial
> .\" change is made to the manual page.
> .Dd April 1, 2006
> 
>> Also, when change is merged the .Dd is left from the original
>> commit to HEAD, not the date of the MFC.
>>
> This is true (most of the time ;-).

Is it true and right?

Cause I'm always changing .Dd to the date of the MFC.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer

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