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Re: FYI: makewhatis bitches from -current



On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 02:45:24PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 08:47:59AM +0100, Jan-Uwe Finck wrote:
> > The man-pages look normal to me, but I'm no expert.
> > Any idea or solution anybody ?
> They are not normal.
> A standard manpage starts with:
> FINGER(1)                  OpenBSD Reference Manual                  FINGER(1)
> 
> NAME
>      finger - user information lookup program
> 
> 
> which is where you get your information for man -k.
> 
> Whereas safe_finger starts with:
> SAFE_FINGER(8)          OpenBSD System Manager's Manual         SAFE_FINGER(8)
> 
> NAME
>      safe_finger
> 
> and soft_updates with:
> FFS_SOFTUPDATES(4)        OpenBSD Programmer's Manual       FFS_SOFTUPDATES(4)
> 
> NAME
>      ffs_softupdates
> 
> 
> which makes them reeeeal useful for man -k.
> The fix is easy: get them a real subject line, something descriptive.
> 
> Anybody can do that. I left those as an easy commit for someone.
> But nobody moves...

I'll see if it was easy enough for me :-) make build is on it's way..

Thanks for the hint !

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