svn commit: r362809 - head/contrib/mandoc

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 12:06:13AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 05:01:00PM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > > Thats good, but realize the page already contains history that
> > > reads like:
> > > 
> > > HISTORY
> > >      Part of the functionality of whatis was already provided by the former
> > >      manwhere utility in 1BSD. The apropos and whatis utilities first ap-
> > >      peared in 2BSD.  They were rewritten from scratch for OpenBSD 5.6.
> > > 
> > >      The -M option and the MANPATH variable first appeared in 4.3BSD; -m in
> > >      4.3BSD-Reno; -C in 4.4BSD Lite1; and -S and -s in OpenBSD 4.5 for apropos
> > >      and in OpenBSD 5.6 for whatis.  The options -acfhIKklOTWw appeared in
> > >      OpenBSD 5.7.
> > > 
> > > And further contains:
> > > 
> > > AUTHORS
> > >      Bill Joy wrote manwhere in 1977 and the original BSD apropos and whatis
> > >      in February 1979. The current version was written by Kristaps Dzonsons
> > >      <kristaps at bsd.lv> and Ingo Schwarze <schwarze at openbsd.org>.
> > > 
> > > So the history is rich and complete, do we really need to say when we
> > > incorporated this into FreeBSD from OpenBSD's mandoc in the manual page?
> > 
> > Ah, in this case, the only thing lacking from the current version is mention
> > of FreeBSD 11.1.  Sorry for not checking with that before writing my reply.
> > My main point, however, was that reverse chronological order looks strange.
> 
> I have created the following differential and integrated the given feedback.
> 
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25566
> 
> If necessary I could revert r362809, but somebody should explicit request it.

Consider it so requested.

> --Gordon
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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org