man-pages bug report: (7) capabilities

man-pages bug report: (7) capabilities

[Rens van der Heijden]

Hello,

I was reading the man page for capabilities and I found a broken URL on 
this page.
The same broken URL is used on the man7 webpage, under 'Conforming to':

<http://wt.xpilot.org/publications/posix.1e/>.

Which does not exist (nor does wt.xpilot.org) and should in fact 
(presumably) refer to:
http://wt.tuxomania.net/publications/posix.1e/

I am using Version: 3.35-0.1ubuntu1, which at the end of the man page 
notes it is part of the 3.44 release.
While I imagine the normal procedure would be to contact the maintainers 
of that package, as noted, the version running on the man7.org webpage 
(which I assume is the latest stable release) also has the issue.

This is tested on Ubuntu 12.04 and man7.org.


Note; this is my first bug report, and I apologize in advance for any 
errors I made.


Thank you for providing excellent documentation!
Greetings,
Rens van der Heijden
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Re: man-pages bug report: (7) capabilities

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

Hello Rens,

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Rens van der Heijden
<rens.vanderheijden-LOWaTC5DtXCELgA04lAiVw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was reading the man page for capabilities and I found a broken URL on this
> page.
> The same broken URL is used on the man7 webpage, under 'Conforming to':
>
> <http://wt.xpilot.org/publications/posix.1e/>.
>
> Which does not exist (nor does wt.xpilot.org) and should in fact
> (presumably) refer to:
> http://wt.tuxomania.net/publications/posix.1e/

Thanks. Fixed for the next release.

> I am using Version: 3.35-0.1ubuntu1, which at the end of the man page notes
> it is part of the 3.44 release.
> While I imagine the normal procedure would be to contact the maintainers of
> that package, as noted, the version running on the man7.org webpage (which I
> assume is the latest stable release) also has the issue.
>
> This is tested on Ubuntu 12.04 and man7.org.
>
>
> Note; this is my first bug report, and I apologize in advance for any errors
> I made.

All perfect as far as I am concerned. thank you.

> Thank you for providing excellent documentation!

You're welcome.

Cheers,

Michael


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Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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