From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Kerrisk Subject: Re: Typo in tzfile man page Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 21:15:47 +0200 Message-ID: <5197D363.2060006@gmail.com> References: <20130501170323.GA19612@glenfiddich.mraw.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Ezio Melotti Cc: Simon Paillard , linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 05/01/13 20:16, Ezio Melotti wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Simon Paillard > 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 >> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html