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diff --git a/doc/bugs/broken_parentlinks.mdwn b/doc/bugs/broken_parentlinks.mdwn
index a58ff6ffe..556d89b65 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/broken_parentlinks.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/broken_parentlinks.mdwn
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ a dead link for every subpage.
 
 This is a bug, but fixing it is very tricky. Consider what would happen if
 example.mdwn were created: example/page.html and the rest of example/*
-would need to be updated to change the parentlink from a bare work to a
+would need to be updated to change the parentlink from a bare word to a
 link to the new page. Now if example.mdwn were removed again, they'd need
 to be updated again. So example/* depends on example. But it's even more
 tricky, because if example.mdwn is modified, we _don't_ want to rebuild
@@ -19,5 +19,32 @@ example/*!
 ikiwiki doesn't have a way to represent this dependency and can't get one
 without a lot of new complex code being added.
 
+> Note that this code has now been added. In new terms, example/* has a
+> presence dependency on example. So this bug is theoretically fixable now.
+> --[[Joey]] 
+
 For now the best thing to do is to make sure that you always create
 example if you create example/foo. Which is probably a good idea anyway..
+
+----
+
+Note that this bug does not exist if the wiki is built with the "usedirs"
+option, since in that case, the parent link will link to a subdirectory,
+that will just be missing the index.html file, but still nicely usable.
+--[[Joey]] 
+
+----
+
+<http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/translator/writing.html> does not exist.
+Then, on
+<http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/translator/writing/example.html>, in the
+*parentlinks* line, *writing* links to the top-level *index* file.  It should
+rather not link anywhere at all.  --[[tschwinge]]
+
+> So, the bug has changed behavior a bit. Rather than a broken link, we get
+> a link to the toplevel page. This, FWIW, is because the template now
+> uses this for each parentlink:
+
+	<a href="<TMPL_VAR URL>"><TMPL_VAR PAGE></a>/
+
+> Best workaround is still to enable usedirs. --[[Joey]]