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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

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