Re: man-pages-3.21 released

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  Hullo,

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:02:25PM +1200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> Gidday,
> 
> The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces:
> 
>    man-pages-3.21.tar.gz - man pages for Linux
> 
> This release is now available for download at:
> 
>  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages
>  or ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages

  can you please push out your current tree?

> ==================== Changes in man-pages-3.21 ====================
> 
> Released: 2009-04-15, Los Gatos

  Isn't this date wrong?

> Changes to individual pages
> ---------------------------
> 
> initrd.4
>    Michael Kerrisk
>        Various minor wording improvements
> 
> initrd.4
>    Frank Dana
>        Add missing word in description
> 
> feature_test_macros.7
>    Michael Kerrisk
>        Update for glibc 2.10 changes to <features.h>
>            From glibc 2.10, <features.h> understands the values 200809
>            for _POSIX_C_SOURCE and 700 for _XOPEN_SOURCE, and makes
>            corresponding changes to defaults for other feature test macros.

  So far I was guessing that man-pages are supposed only to have changes
in latest released glibc version when they aren't in flux yet. Is the
policy different? Or is it just a "common sense" policy that changes
that are obviously fixed already are included?

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty
in the morning feeling just terrible. -- Jean Kerr
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