it is up to date:
$ apt-cache show glibc-doc |grep Version
Version: 2.9-4ubuntu2
** Changed in: glibc (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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Please update glibc-doc to 2.9 manual
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If you run "info libc", you'll see that the manual is for 2.8. Sorry I
didn't make that obvious before.
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Just in case it's still not clear: the manual that originally shipped
with glibc 2.9 was for 2.8. The manual has only just been updated. So
whatever the version on the glibc-doc package, the manual is out of
date, and it would be nice to have it updated to the current manual,
which has only just be