Re: Typo in tzfile man page

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Hi,

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Simon Paillard
<simon.paillard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:03:03AM +0300, Ezio Melotti wrote:
>> The second line of the "Description" of the tzfile man page contains a typo:
>> "The time zone information files used by tzset(3) begin with the magic
>> characters "TZif" to identify then as time zone information files"
>>
>> s/then/them/
>>
>> $ man -w 5 tzfile
>> /usr/share/man/man5/tzfile.5.gz
>> $ dpkg -p manpages-dev | grep Version
>> Version: 3.40-0.1ubuntu3
>
> Fixed since man-pages-3.41 by commit
> commit 56c4cc3618d12e91128199528b63241c3a2675ec
> Author: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Fri May 4 06:52:26 2012 +1200
>
>     tzfile.5: Mention timezone directories in DESCRIPTION
>

Thanks for confirming that this is already fixed.

> FYI, you check whether a bug is already fixed upstream by checking online
> manpages at http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/tzfile.5.html
>

I now noticed that
https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/what_version.html suggests to
check the online pages, but unfortunately I missed it when I reported
the issue.  Maybe this could be added to the bullet list at the bottom
of https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html too.

Best Regards,
Ezio Melotti

> Best regards.
>
> --
> Simon Paillard
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