Re: Typo in tzfile man page

[Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 05/01/13 20:16, Ezio Melotti wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Simon Paillard
> <simon.paillard-RGJHTEmuthQGuQl/6FzYuenJ6Cvpl5oe@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:03:03AM +0300, Ezio Melotti wrote:
>>> The second line of the "Description" of the tzfile man page contains a typo:
>>> "The time zone information files used by tzset(3) begin with the magic
>>> characters "TZif" to identify then as time zone information files"
>>>
>>> s/then/them/
>>>
>>> $ man -w 5 tzfile
>>> /usr/share/man/man5/tzfile.5.gz
>>> $ dpkg -p manpages-dev | grep Version
>>> Version: 3.40-0.1ubuntu3
>>
>> Fixed since man-pages-3.41 by commit
>> commit 56c4cc3618d12e91128199528b63241c3a2675ec
>> Author: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
>> Date:   Fri May 4 06:52:26 2012 +1200
>>
>>     tzfile.5: Mention timezone directories in DESCRIPTION
>>
> 
> Thanks for confirming that this is already fixed.
> 
>> FYI, you check whether a bug is already fixed upstream by checking online
>> manpages at http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/tzfile.5.html
>>
> 
> I now noticed that
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/what_version.html suggests to
> check the online pages, but unfortunately I missed it when I reported
> the issue.  Maybe this could be added to the bullet list at the bottom
> of https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html too.

Ezio,

Thanks for the suggestion. I've made that change (it's not yet live--it'll
go out with the next web site update).

Cheers,

Michael


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