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Date:      Sun, 5 Jul 2020 09:40:14 +0200
From:      Gordon Bergling <gbe@freebsd.org>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
Cc:        rgrimes@freebsd.org, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r362809 - head/contrib/mandoc
Message-ID:  <20200705074014.GA16505@lion.0xfce3.net>
In-Reply-To: <20200702000613.GA93146@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20200701234213.GA54023@FreeBSD.org> <202007020001.062010DA058837@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <20200702000613.GA93146@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 12:06:13AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 05:01:00PM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > Thats good, but realize the page already contains history that
> > reads like:
> > 
> > HISTORY
> >      Part of the functionality of whatis was already provided by the former
> >      manwhere utility in 1BSD. The apropos and whatis utilities first ap-
> >      peared in 2BSD.  They were rewritten from scratch for OpenBSD 5.6.
> > 
> >      The -M option and the MANPATH variable first appeared in 4.3BSD; -m in
> >      4.3BSD-Reno; -C in 4.4BSD Lite1; and -S and -s in OpenBSD 4.5 for apropos
> >      and in OpenBSD 5.6 for whatis.  The options -acfhIKklOTWw appeared in
> >      OpenBSD 5.7.
> > 
> > And further contains:
> > 
> > AUTHORS
> >      Bill Joy wrote manwhere in 1977 and the original BSD apropos and whatis
> >      in February 1979. The current version was written by Kristaps Dzonsons
> >      <kristaps@bsd.lv> and Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>.
> > 
> > So the history is rich and complete, do we really need to say when we
> > incorporated this into FreeBSD from OpenBSD's mandoc in the manual page?
> 
> Ah, in this case, the only thing lacking from the current version is mention
> of FreeBSD 11.1.  Sorry for not checking with that before writing my reply.
> My main point, however, was that reverse chronological order looks strange.

I have created the following differential and integrated the given feedback.

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25566

If necessary I could revert r362809, but somebody should explicit request it.

--Gordon



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