Re: Date in emacs man-file

[Stefan Kangas]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:
>
>> I notice the second line of the file man/emacs.1.in has "2007 April
>> 13". Therefore "man emacs <RET>" will give this date at the foot of the
>> manual, along side the emacs version (27.1 in the case of the latest
>> release). Should not this date be amended to something more recent?
>
> "man 7 man-pages" says:
>
>        date   The date of the last nontrivial change that was made to the  man
>               page.   (Within  the man-pages project, the necessary updates to
>               these timestamps are handled automatically by scripts, so  there
>               is  no  need to manually update them as part of a patch.)  Dates
>               should be written in the form YYYY-MM-DD.
>
> Perhaps we could add a local timestamp variable to update it
> automatically?  It would catch even insignificant changes, but it would
> be up to the committer to update the timestamp or not.

How does the attached patch look?  In addition to fixing the dates, I
added a time-stamp-pattern and updated the title lines to match the
recommendations in "man man-pages".  (I also took a look at the gcc man
page and made sure they use the "GNU" header like I do here.)

0001-Fix-man-page-title-lines-and-timestamps.patch
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