Re: exif --remove not idempotent, and a Debian man page bug
On 2022-09-25 at 01:43, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> The Wanderer wrote:
>>> There should be no history entries in the man pages that
>>> relates to practical aspects that are no
>>> longer operational.
>>
>> The E-mail address doesn't relate to a practical
>> aspect, though.
>
> Ikr? Since it doesn't work! Just remove it.
It does work: it works to identify which of the people with the
referenced name is the one who is being referred to, because only one of
those people either has or formerly had that address.
As I said in the part you snipped, it is *identifying* information.
--
The Wanderer
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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