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Re: approx in debian 12

From Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: approx in debian 12
Date 2023-11-17 20:10 +0100
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On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 05:18:02PM +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> Should we report an error regarding the approx man page which states:
> 
> USEAGE
> approx is invoked by inetd(8)

I assume you're looking at the approx(8) man page as shown
here: <https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/approx/approx.8.en.html>

This is upstream's man page, dated May 2011.  It's clearly not going
to be *literally* true on every system, as there are plenty of
alternatives to inetd (xinetd, systemd, and so on).  One may read it
as meaning "inetd or something which fulfills the same role".

I would not bother filing any cosmetic bug reports against a 12-year-old
upstream man page.

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Re: approx in debian 12 Kamil Jońca <kjonca@o2.pl> - 2023-11-16 07:40 +0100
  Re: approx in debian 12 "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2023-11-16 08:10 +0100
    Re: approx in debian 12 Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2023-11-16 11:30 +0100
      Re: approx in debian 12 "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2023-11-17 07:00 +0100
        Re: approx in debian 12 Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2023-11-17 07:30 +0100
          Re: approx in debian 12 "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2023-11-17 07:50 +0100
            Re: approx in debian 12 Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2023-11-17 08:20 +0100
              Re: approx in debian 12 "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2023-11-17 08:30 +0100
                Re: approx in debian 12 Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2023-11-17 09:00 +0100
                Re: approx in debian 12 "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2023-11-17 09:10 +0100
                Re: approx in debian 12 Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2023-11-17 10:20 +0100
                Re: approx in debian 12 "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2023-11-17 18:20 +0100
                Re: approx in debian 12 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-11-17 20:10 +0100
                Re: approx in debian 12 "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2023-11-17 21:30 +0100
                Re: approx in debian 12 "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2023-11-18 11:50 +0100

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