On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 06:56:09PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > TLDR: The point is that i have seen several manuals in a number of > different operating systems, both historical (around 1990) and modern > (around 2020) that give one or two arguments to .Dd. From the > content of these arguments, it is obvious that they all expect the > date to be passed through unchanged. I don't recall ever having > seen a manual page that passes one, two, or four arguments and > expects the current behaviour of replacing the arguments with the > date of formatting.
The behaviour change as described seems reasonable to me, although I haven't reviewed the code. However, is there some good reason why this patch doesn't include a matching change to the documentation in tmac/groff_mdoc.7.man? -- Colin Watson [[email protected]]
