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Re:Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? by theli0nheart on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @09:37AM (#15748072)
Like the OP and maintainer said, no one ran into this for 6 years—that's a darn long time in the lifetime of a program. And, as the maintainer said, "it was never meant to affect non-error cases." He pushed a change to fix that [1] and this won't break any builds in the future.

Personally, I really appreciate that a little whimsy was added into a terminal command that's literally built for reading manuals for command-line programs. IMO, this was a net-positive for humanity.

[1]: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/man-db.git/commit/?id=84bd...

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Re:Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? by LocalH on Thursday November 23, 2017 @01:47AM (#15763293)
Spoke too soon. It's gone. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/man-db.git/commit/?id=b225...
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Re:Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? by theli0nheart on Saturday November 25, 2017 @09:36AM (#15776108)
This makes me sad.
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Re:Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? by petdance on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @02:41PM (#15750880)
It's probably more correct to say "Nobody complained in a public forum for 6 years."
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