[pacman-dev] Doc bug in PKGBUILD(5)

[Doug Newgard]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 00:23:49 -0500
Eric Côté <ericcotelnu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was reading the online HTML man page, and noticed a doc bug.
> 
> Here's the relevant section, verbatim, except I put **** around the bug:
> 
> =====
> Using VCS Sources
> 
> Building a developmental version of a package using sources from a version 
> control system (VCS) is enabled by specifying the source in the form 
> source=('folder::url#fragment'). Currently makepkg supports the bzr, git, hg 
> and svn protocols.
> 
> The source URL is divided into three components:
> 
> folder
> 
>     (optional) Specifies an alternate folder name for makepkg to download the 
> VCS source into.
> url
> 
>     The url to the VCS repo. This must include ****the the**** vcs in the URL 
> protocol for makepkg to recognize this as a VCS source. If the protocol does 
> not include the VCS name, it can be added by prefixing the URL with vcs+. For 
> example, using a git repository over http would have a source URL in the form 
> git+http://....
> =====
> 
> A double 'the' is present.
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric
> 
> 

Why not check the actual man page? Or at least the Git repo? This was fixed
nearly 2 years ago. Don't trust the information you're seeing on that web site.

Doug