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authorColin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>2023-07-20 00:46:15 +0100
committerColin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>2023-07-20 00:46:15 +0100
commitea03bb3498c6a73158bd71fe92c69e298b94292b (patch)
tree1e39fdc68ca364c234f3e298256d39317a40ee68
parent26f46a60e50a7258d20465997a766df5392db618 (diff)
Change "CONFORMING TO" to "STANDARDS"
This is in line with `man-pages(7)`. See https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/issues/20. * man/man1/man.man1 (DESCRIPTION): Recommend `STANDARDS` rather than `CONFORMING TO`. * NEWS.md: Document this.
-rw-r--r--NEWS.md2
-rw-r--r--man/man1/man.man12
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 1610aab7..18a332dd 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ Improvements:
* `man -K` now deduplicates search results that point to the same page.
* Warn if `mandb` drops to `--user-db` mode due to running as the wrong
user.
+ * Change section title recommendations in `man(1)` to mention `STANDARDS`
+ rather than `CONFORMING TO`, in line with `man-pages(7)`.
man-db 2.11.2 (8 January 2023)
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diff --git a/man/man1/man.man1 b/man/man1/man.man1
index 7055c09e..029651c4 100644
--- a/man/man1/man.man1
+++ b/man/man1/man.man1
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ Conventional section names include
.BR ENVIRONMENT ,
.BR FILES ,
.BR VERSIONS ,
-.BR CONFORMING\ TO ,
+.BR STANDARDS ,
.BR NOTES ,
.BR BUGS ,
.BR EXAMPLE ,