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http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1218 --- Comment #2 from April Chin <[email protected]> 2012-03-15 23:25:52 --- On 3/15/2012 9:11 AM, Philip Hazel wrote: > ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- > You reported the bug. > > http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1218 > > > > > --- Comment #1 from Philip Hazel<[email protected]> 2012-03-15 16:11:08 > --- > On Wed, 14 Mar 2012, April Chin wrote: > >> For example, the pcre-config(1) manpage (in pcre 8.30) has this section >> >> REVISION >> >> Last updated: 01 January 2012 >> >> but its footer has an empty Last change date (manpage for pcre installed >> on Solaris 11, aka SunOS 5.11): >> >> SunOS 5.11 Last change: 2 > Is that a SunOS thing? On Gentoo Linux the footer contains just > PCRE-CONFIG(1) at the right hand side. Yes, it looks like the SunOS/Solaris man macros put "SunOS 5.11" in the left side of the page footer. I don't know how the page footers I see in Solaris differ from other OSs, but I have seen other freeware manpages (perl, gmake, GNU gettext, git) put a date in the 3rd argument of the .TH line and also sometimes a name of the package and version in the 4th argument. >> The revision date should be added to the .TH line, which currently looks >> like: >> >> .TH PCRE-CONFIG 1 >> >> along with perhaps the string "PCRE<version #>": >> >> .TH PCRE-CONFIG 1 "01 January 2012" "PCRE 8.30" >> >> so the page footers would then list the last change date and pcre version: >> >> PCRE 8.30 Last change: 01 January 2012 2 > I will experiment on Linux and see if that works or breaks things or > whatever. Sounds good--thanks! --April -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.exim.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
