Bug#604990: clarify man page dates policy
X-debbugs-Cc: man-db@packages.debian.org, radian@cox.net
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.9.1.0
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch-docs.html
The Debian Policy Manual should state what the preferred date on manual
pages should be, or wishes upstream would make it.
*The date any new version of the package was released?
*The date any changes to the man page were made?
*The date any significant changes to the man page were made?
*etc. etc.
Also mention if Debian maintainers should tamper with upstreams' date, or only
maybe when they add things to the man page.
By 'dates' I am talking about the
$ man -w cat|xargs zcat|sed 2!d
.TH CAT "1" "April 2010" "GNU coreutils 8.5" "User Commands"
line. Which brings up another item to mention: just month and year OK,
or must add date?
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