Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:54:31 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Mark Steven Baker <msbaker@cs.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipfw.8 in RELENG_4 has .DD February 16, 2000 Message-ID: <20011210145431.A1922@gohan.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <200112101324.FAA26264@ix.cs.uoregon.edu>; from msbaker@cs.uoregon.edu on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:24:25AM -0800 References: <200112101324.FAA26264@ix.cs.uoregon.edu>
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:24:25AM -0800, Mark Steven Baker wrote: > Hi, > > I was looking at the latest version of the ipfw.8 man page in FreeBSD > 4-stable from the web interface to the CVS repository and the version on my > local source tree that was CVSUPed yesterday. The source file has a .DD > macro indicating Febuary 16, 2000, yet there were a number of substantial > revisions and additions made in the last 6 weeks (Revisions 1.63.2.16 and > 1.63.2.17) to this man page and the ipfw implementation. When viewing > man pages, this makes it confusing whether the man page has been > updated to reflect the latest version changes to the ipfw.c > (Revision 1.80.2.20, for example). The date on manpages should be updated whenever non-trivial changes (mark-up, spelling, and grammar fixes are trivial) are made to the content of the page. However, developers often forget or do not realize they should do this. I think ipfw(8) is in sync with the code (at the moment). Please submit PRs if you find it otherwise. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message
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