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Old 'man' (yells at cloud?)


From: Jon Bailey
Subject: Old 'man' (yells at cloud?)
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 16:17:17 -0600

Hello!

As far as I can find - "man" mentioned in /FAQ has not had a release since 2010.

Last snapshot of the old page - (2013-12-17)
https://web.archive.org/web/20131217145929/http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/
The one post to the Google Groups man-announce from the docs:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/man-announce/XyBoOWbxuOA/0hxiCzbw3cAJ

The below patch corrects the dead URL in the FAQ.

Happy hacking,
-jon

diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ
index 702fc562..00f8a85d 100644
--- a/FAQ
+++ b/FAQ
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Frequently Asked Questions
 Why use man-db instead of man?
 ==============================

-The man (currently http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/) and man-db
+The man (currently
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/doctools/man/) and man-db
 packages forked from a common code base in the mid-1990s.  The original goal
 of man-db was, as indicated by the name, to add database caching to manual
 page searches.  The increase in computer performance has considerably
@@ -57,9 +57,9 @@ significantly better job than man:

   * Maintenance

-    At the time of writing (February 2012), man-db has had ten full releases
+    At the time of writing (May 2020), man-db has had forty full releases
     since the start of 2008 with substantial feature work, while man has had
-    one release with a few minor changes.
+    two releases with a few minor changes.

 I have great respect for the people who maintain man, but as a project it
 has fallen badly behind.  Rather than continuing to struggle along with



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