On 09/10/2021 19:39, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > Hi Jonny, > > On 10/8/21 7:57 PM, Jonny Grant wrote: >> I noticed this page has a date 2021-03-22 for the 5.13 at the footer. > > At each release (actualy, a couple of commits before the release), we run a script that, for each page, checks if a page has been modified during that release. > > If it hasn't been modified, the page will keep its old page timestamp. > If it has been modified, it will be updated with a timestamp corresponding to the date of the to-be-released release. > > So that date you're seeing is because malloc.3 hasn't been modified since version 5.11 (which was released on 2021-03-22). > > See below some tree view of the history of man3/malloc.3 including releases to explain the above graphically. Many thanks for the explanation Alex With kind regards Jonny
