bug#17578: cp(1) man page: behavior of "cp -R dir target" on symbolic links is unclear

[Bob Proulx]

Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Must be an old version;
> 
> The man page says:
> GNU coreutils 8.21             April 2014                    CP(1)
> April 2014, thus not that old.

On your system that must be the date when the man page was formatted.
It isn't the date when the version was released.  Version 8.21 was
released 2013-02-14 and so is now a little over a year old.

(Which I still consider relatively recent.  But a year ago recent not
a month ago recent.)

Bob