Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 16:51:17 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/43502: Manual page ZNEW(1) has a bug Message-ID: <20021003165117.7f86780d.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <abofabb6dq.fab@localhost.localdomain> References: <200210030710.g937A4o9081365@freefall.freebsd.org> <rn3crncsnw.crn@localhost.localdomain> <20021003153013.336e92a0.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <abofabb6dq.fab@localhost.localdomain>
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On 03 Oct 2002 13:43:29 -0700 swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) wrote: > Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > > I'll work on fixing this in the next few hours, however, znew is > > contrib software from gzip. While I would say to fix on the vender > > brance, gzip hasn't been touched in several years (shortest time is > > listed in cvs as 22 months for one file, all others are like 3 years > > and 8 years) so I don't think it makes much a difference to change > > this in our local repo. > > That sounds like an argument for fixing it locally, since vendor > source changes don't need to be tracked frequently and there's a low > probabilty of the vender source being changed to suit the FreeBSD PR. Not really an argument, in fact I like the idea. Why should we have users check manual pages for utilties that do not exist ;) > > But it's sufficiently unimportant that it probably makes sense to just > convert the PR to another "wish list" PR, which in my opinion should > never be closed unless the PR becomes inapplicable. Or until > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/pr-when.html > is changed. > Please don't make my life harder than what it already is hehehe -- Tom (Darklogik) Rhodes www.FreeBSD.org -The Power To Serve www.Pittgoth.com -Pittgoth Discussion Portal trhodes@{Pittgoth.com, FreeBSD.org} PGP key by www: http://www.pittgoth.com/~darklogik/darklogik.key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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