On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 at 15:48, Mark Johnston <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I presume that "content" means more like semantic, functional changes > > that affect some particular meaning. Grammar fixes are just, well, > > grammar fixes and thus do not warrant .Dd bump. > > Indeed, this was always my understanding as well. I can't find a > concrete definition anywhere. I don't understand why it would be useful > as a user to see the date of the last "content change" if such changes > might consist only of a small formatting change or typo fix.
My understanding as well. My thinking - if the user last read the man page prior to the .Dd date then they know they have a reason to read it again. On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 at 15:50, Cy Schubert <[email protected]> wrote: > > Should this be documented in the committers guide? Yes, it probably should. We probably need to provide more guidance on documentation in the committer's guide, but there's already a small bit about man pages in "18.3. Other Suggestions" and we could add this there. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
