Package: man-db Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man1/kismet.1.gz Here we see one man page has been given today's date: $ man kismet_drone kismet|grep 200|tr -s ' ' February 24, 2002 kismet_drone(1) Kismet October 22, 2009 Kismet
$ zgrep 200 /usr/share/man/man1/kismet* /usr/share/man/man1/kismet.1.gz:.Dd April 2004 /usr/share/man/man1/kismet_drone.1.gz:.TH kismet_drone 1 "February 24, 2002" "" "" So we see there is some problem with the kismet page nroff commands. However, "how dare man-db go putting today's date on man pages", when there is no way that could be true: $ stat /var/cache/apt/archives/kismet_2008-05-R1-4.1_i386.deb File: `/var/cache/apt/archives/kismet_2008-05-R1-4.1_i386.deb' Size: 945862 Blocks: 1858 IO Block: 1024 regular file Device: 307h/775d Inode: 314594 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2009-10-22 20:36:56.000000000 +0800 Modify: 2009-10-18 07:05:28.000000000 +0800 Change: 2009-10-22 20:36:20.000000000 +0800 I.e., what if you open up some dusty book, only to find today's date in the back cover... would you believe it? Therefore the man command should just not put any date, unless it has evidence to back it up, that there is some connection of that date to the author's actions, not the reader's actions! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
