[Bug 1693915] Re: e2fsprogs: ext(2,3,4) manpage typo

[Hans Joachim Desserud]

Thanks for taking your time to report this issue and help making Ubuntu
better.

I can confirm this typo is present e2fsprogs 1.42.13-1ubuntu1 on Ubuntu
16.04 (http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/en/man5/ext4.5.html).
However, it has been corrected to "ext3" on Ubuntu 16.10 and newer.  I
did some research and found a corresponding bug report in Debian, see
the attached bug watch.

Since the typo is fixed in newer releases, I'm marking this as Fix
Released. If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu,
you may look into the the SRU Procedure [1]. (Though I am not sure
whether this particular issue would qualify as an SRU)

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #798425
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=798425

** Also affects: e2fsprogs (Debian) via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=798425
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

** Tags added: bitesize manpage string-fix trusty xenial

** Changed in: e2fsprogs (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  e2fsprogs: ext(2,3,4) manpage typo

Status in e2fsprogs package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in e2fsprogs package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  When running: man ext4

  There is an obvious typo at the top:

  NAME
         ext2 - the second extended file system
         ext2 - the third extended file system
         ext4 - the fourth extended file system

  
  Clearly, the "third" extended filesystem should be "ext3" not "ext2"

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