docs/90851: mdoc(7) manpage needs more FreeBSD versions

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun Jan 1 23:00:37 UTC 2006


The following reply was made to PR docs/90851; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
To: Remko Lodder <remko at elvandar.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/90851: mdoc(7) manpage needs more FreeBSD versions 
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 23:53:52 +0100

 In message <20060101194413.GA73743 at elvandar.org>, Remko Lodder writes:
 >On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 01:34:42PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
 >> >Description:
 >> 
 >> 	The mdoc(7) manual enumerates (pointlessly in my opinion) the various releases
 >> 	of FreeBSD that can be specified to the Os and Fx macros:
 >> 
 >>                   FreeBSD  1.0, 1.1, 1.1.5, 1.1.5.1, 2.0, 2.0.5, 2.1, 2.1.5,
 >>                             2.1.6, 2.1.7, 2.2, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.5, 2.2.6,
 >>                             2.2.7, 2.2.8, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.0,
 >>                             4.1, 4.1.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.6.2, 4.7,
 >>                             4.8, 4.9, 4.10, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.3
 >> 
 >> 	The list should either be kept up to date, or more sensibly be replaced with
 >> 
 >> 		FreeBSD  1.0, 1.1, 1.1.5, 2.0, 2.0.5, etc. etc.
 >> 
 >> 
 >
 >Hi Poul-Henning,
 >
 >   Does the diff below look reasonable?
 
 Is it a more future proof solution to just list a handful and add "etc" ?
 
 
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