On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 07:22:22AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
sorry, the TH section that states "GNU fileutils 4.1" implied that the man page was taken from that package / version ... i didnt actually check the source
Yes, the man-pages package has contained ls.1 etc for a while. The last update was for fileutils 4.0, as seen e.g. in ls(1)
-h, --human-readable Append a size letter, such as M for binary megabytes (`mebibytes'), to each size. (New in fileutils-4.0.) ... NOTES This page describes ls as found in the fileutils-4.0 package; other versions may differ slightly.
These pages are now being discarded, which is a pity since they are still better than the corresponding GNU pages. But it is true that they are outdated - one evening of work is needed to update them.
More in general it is a pity that when people complained to GNU that they preferred man pages over info files the GNU reaction was to provide low quality, machine-generated, man-pages, telling people to read the info files. Of course such low-quality man-pages are worse than having nothing at all, since they will replace good man-pages from elsewhere.
Andries