On 8/20/22 13:57, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > On 8/20/22 07:43, G. Branden Robinson wrote: >> >> In my opinion it would benefit readers of the Linux man-pages if the >> fourth argument to `TH` were what it is in many other man pages: an >> identifier for the name and version number of the release originating >> them. In every page it would be clear what version of the man-pages was >> being viewed. Little sophistication would be demanded of the user to >> check the Web to determine the relative age of the pages, independently >> of the modification date of the particular page. Such usage would be >> congruent with the argument's purpose in AT&T and BSD Unix, where this >> datum was "7th Edition", "System III", or "4.2 Berkeley Distribution", >> or similar. > > I thought about it in the past... That field was the only thing that > said where a function came from. If we removed GNU (or something else), > how would someone know where does the function or whatever comes from?? > > I guess that's also why the colophon was appended to the pages by > Michael. Since we couldn't use the 4th field for that, we had to have a > COLOPHON section. > > However, the addition of the LIBRARY section seems to fix this issue, > and so now we have an even more precise way to determine where a given > function comes from (including the library file name, and the linker > option). > > This gives me another argument for those who don't like to have a > LIBRARY section for libc stuff (since -lc is unnecessary), and consider > it noise. > >> >> Further, as the libc-related man pages in this project expand coverage >> to other libcs than GNU's, the alternatives to the empty string >> proferred in man-pages(7) seem less and less appropriate. > > Agree. LIBRARY seems much more appropriate for that purpose. > > And this helps remove the COLOPHON section (or at least, we don't need > to autogenerate it, since the version number now comes in .TH, and the > COLOPHON is static; so I can even move it to a smaller REPORTING BUGS > section). Scripted change: $ find man* -type f \ |xargs sed -Ei '/^.TH /s/(.TH +[^ ]+ +[^ ]+ +[^ ]+) +"[^"]*"/\1 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"/' $ find man* -type f \ |xargs sed -Ei '/^.TH /s/(.TH +[^ ]+ +[^ ]+ +[^ ]+) +[^" ]+/\1 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"/' $ git restore man5/tzfile.5 $ git restore man8/zdump.8 $ git restore man8/zic.8 $ git restore man7/bpf-helpers.7 Link: <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/20220819180323.dbsgxh5qvcjabjm6@jwilk.net/T/#u> Reported-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net> Reported-by: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>