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regarding hdaps-utils: the man page is incomprehensible. What does this do?
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Package: hdaps-utils
Version: 0.1-1.1
Severity: normal
There is no documentation with hdaps-utils.
Tha man page consists of 5 incomprehensible lines for both of the two
utilities supplied.
hdaps-pivot text-based application that shows the laptop position
in real-time via hdaps.
What is a "laptop position"? Does it tell me I am in London? Does
it tell me the laptop is on my lap? Does it tell me if it is upside
down? If the author cannot even explain what this does, why is it in
the distro? Who put it there? And why?
Part of Thinkpad HDAPS (Hard Drive Active Protection System)
utilities.
Yes, the other part seems to be hdaps-gl. Which has a worse man page!
hdaps-gl GL-based laptop model that rotates in real-time via hdaps.
What?!!! That's not even english. The verb in the sentence is missing!
I have no idea what could have been meant. Please get somebody japanese
to write this man page - it might be more comprehensible!
COme to that, what is a "GL-based laptop". And what is a "laptop
model"? And since when do laptops "rotate"? and what has "real time"
(note, no hyphen, conventionally) to do with anything? Never mind that
telling us what hdaps initials mean doesn't tell us anything about what
it is.
Before run this application be sure you have hdaps driver running.
And what is a "hdaps driver"? (missing article: the? a?).
SInce this seems to be connected with a hard drive, why does it mention
laptops? Laptops don't always have hard drives, and hard drives aren't
restricted to laptops. What is the connection?
I am completely mystified. I would look at the source code in the hope
of getting some info, but I'm not on the net at the moment.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-19.41 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages hdaps-utils depends on:
ii freeglut3 2.4.0-6.1 OpenGL Utility Toolkit
ii libc6 2.7-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 7.0.3-6 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libglu1-mesa [libglu1] 7.0.3-6 The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
hdaps-utils recommends no packages.
hdaps-utils suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Version: 0.1-1.1+rm
The hdaps-utils package has been removed from Debian so we are closing
the bugs that were still opened against it.
For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/526172 . That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed, and suggestions of possible replacements.
Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.
Thank you for your contribution to Debian.
Kind regards,
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Marco Rodrigues
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