On 2024-12-22 04:53, Bruno Haible via Gnulib discussion list wrote:
The question is really: What does "up to date"
mean for a stable API, that is part of the LI18NUX standard since ca. 2001
or 2002 ?
I doubt whether there is a universal standard.
For coreutils releases, the man pages say something like "GNU coreutils
9.5 March 2024 CAT(1)" at the page bottom, and the date
corresponds to when the coreutils release tarball was made. Although the
reader might assume that "9.4" corresponds to "March 2024", this
assumption is dicey when downstream distros install patches. For
example, on Fedora 40 the line says "GNU coreutils 9.4
November 2024 CAT(1)" because they patched
their downstream copy of coreutils most recently in November 2024, so
it's no longer 9.4 but is really 9.4-9.fc40 but the man page still says
just "9.4".
For what it's worth, 7th Edition Unix man pages had just "7th Edition"
and a page number at the bottom.
