How to file a documentation bug on Fedora?

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I’d like to file a bug related to man page documentation. How do I do that? Should I file on bugzilla.redhat.com?

If so, what are the values to enter to classify the bug? The product is Fedora obviously. But I don’t know what value to enter for “Component” (second drop down field on the bug submission page.

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For which command is it?

Such things is best to file upstream.

dnf info gives you the information of the location you could report it. Mostly it is with git proposing a pull request.

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This quick doc describes how to file a bug generally (note that it may be slightly outdated)

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It’s for the man page documentation of dnf.

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And, yes, the page you references is outdated… as are a lot of pages on https://docs.fedoraproject.org

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dnf info dnf5 gave me the git repo where I coul find the man page:

dnf5/doc/dnf5.8.rst at main · rpm-software-management/dnf5 · GitHub

Now you could fork that, change what you believe should be different and then send it as a change request.

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Thanks; I’ll try that…

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That’s fine. If it’s related to a Fedora package, you can file it on Bugzilla (unless it’s gnome, where they now require people to file bugs upstream).

If you file it on Bugzilla, it is the package maintainer’s responsibility to file it upstream/fix it. If you file it directly upstream, you skip the maintainer—which is fine (preferred even, as it helps the maintainer).

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Please feel free to file an issue (or submit a PR even. The links/icons in the top right of each documentation page will take you to file an issue or a edit the page.