Bug 215738
| Summary: | uri.7: CONFORMING TO: Refers to obsolete IETF RFC 2396 | ||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Alejandro Colomar (alx) |
| Component: | man-pages | Assignee: | documentation_man-pages (documentation_man-pages) |
| Status: | NEW --- | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | sowani |
| Priority: | P1 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Kernel Version: | Subsystem: | ||
| Regression: | No | Bisected commit-id: | |
| Attachments: | Suggested patch to update uri(7) man page. | ||
Should check the following RFCs that replace it: 2396: <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986> <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6874> (updates 3986) <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8820> (updates 3986) Created attachment 300956 [details]
Suggested patch to update uri(7) man page.
The "CONFORMING TO" section of uri(7) man page is updated with following changes:
1. reference to rfc2396 has been removed
2. references to rfc6874 and rfc8820 have been added.
But does the manual page really conform to the newer RFCs? The contents are quite large, and I don't know if some details of it are actually obsolete and should be fixed. (In reply to Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) from comment #3) > But does the manual page really conform to the newer RFCs? The contents are > quite large, and I don't know if some details of it are actually obsolete > and should be fixed. Actually, it conforms more to rfc8820. So, IMHO, reference to rfc6874 can be removed. If this sounds okay, I will commit a new patch. |
[uri(7)::CONFORMING TO] reads as: ``` CONFORMING TO (IETF RFC 2396) <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt>, (HTML 4.0) <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40>. ``` which refers to an obsolete RFC[1]. We better conform to a newer RFC :) [1]: <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2396>