As a user, I would expect that the man page refers to the version installed in the system. Moreover, I cannot know that the man page has not changed since version X. The date should be the release as on the front page, e.g. for 7.35.0 "2014-01-29". This creates a distinct connection to the front page.

> Are you suggesting that we should use the most recent version and current date in all man pages automatically?

Given the above post -- yes.

A simple example is invoking "curl --version". It says, version 7.35.0 but if you do "curl --manual" it shows 7.27.0. This makes no sense (to me).

It happens way too often for me that I have a curl installed via package manager and then install a newer one to /usr/local.

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** [bugs:#1342] curl.1/curl-config.1 refer to old versions**
**Status:** open
**Created:** Thu Mar 13, 2014 03:59 PM UTC by Michael Osipov
**Last Updated:** Thu Mar 13, 2014 04:19 PM UTC
**Owner:** Daniel Stenberg
Man pages still refer to ancient versions.
Maybe the versions and dates should be removed and sed at build-time.
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