From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
To: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Cc: mario.blaettermann@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org,
libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Issue in man page getent.1
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2023 20:49:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZU_arWFMvWAc5997@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZUJyeuoNdIArAOzl@meinfjell.helgefjelltest.de>
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Hi Helge,
On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 03:44:58PM +0000, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Hello Alejandro,
> Am Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 04:30:10PM +0100 schrieb Alejandro Colomar:
> > Hi Helge,
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 02:02:10PM +0000, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > > Without further ado, the following was found:
> > >
> > > Issue: No "in succession" here on purpose?
> >
> > I don't understand this report. Please detail.
>
> In the other paragraphs (above and below) the man pages explicitly
> writes "in succession". I wondered why this is not present in these
> paragraphs. It could be on purpose, but it looks like an omission to
> me.
Hmm, I'm not sure. I'm CCing glibc to gather their knowledge.
Cheers,
Alex
>
> Greetings
>
> Helge
> > P.S.: Please send to <alx@kernel.org>, not to <alx.manpages@gmail.com>,
> > since I'm deprecating that address.
>
> Thanks. I updated my scripts and documentation.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-11 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-01 14:02 Issue in man page getent.1 Helge Kreutzmann
2023-11-01 15:30 ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-11-01 15:44 ` Helge Kreutzmann
2023-11-11 19:49 ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
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2023-11-01 14:02 Helge Kreutzmann
2023-11-01 15:38 ` Alejandro Colomar
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