NetBSD Problem Report #59697
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Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2025 12:42:22 GMT
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Subject: Man pages for less(1) are long out of date
>Number: 59697
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: Man pages for less(1) are long out of date
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: bin-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Tue Oct 07 12:45:00 +0000 2025
>Last-Modified: Tue Oct 07 14:22:58 +0000 2025
>Originator: elo
>Release: NetBSD 11.0_BETA
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD 11.0_BETA, but the same will be true of -current.
>Description:
Version 643 of less(1) was imported two years ago, but its man
pages (for less, lessecho and lesskey) were somehow missed out
and remain those of the much older 458 release.
>How-To-Repeat:
Inspect <src/external/bsd/less/dist/> on CVSweb, or try:
$ less --version
$ man less | tail -n1
$ man lessecho | tail -n1
$ man lesskey | tail -n1
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: gnats-admin->bin-bug-people
Responsible-Changed-By: dholland@NetBSD.org
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:22:58 +0000
Responsible-Changed-Why:
No idea why this landed in pending, file it properly
>Unformatted:
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