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has caused the Debian Bug report #514675,
regarding coreutils: id manpage is too short on details
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Package: coreutils
Version: 6.10-6
Severity: normal
The manpage for id does not describe what information it prints. It
should state that by default, the information printed is the username
and userid, default/current group name and group id, and the list of
groups (and the group ids) to which that user belongs, instead of merely
stating "Without any OPTION, print some useful set of identified [sic]
information."
The description should be changed from "Print information for USERNAME,
or the current user." to "Print information about the user and groups
for the user specified by USERNAME, or the current user if USERNAME is
not specified."
A user who has never heard of id should be able to determine how to
properly use it by looking solely at the manual page. In its current
state, that's apparently not the case; hence, this bug.
If you specify whether you'd like the manpage in man, mdoc, or DocBook
5.0 format, I'll happily provide you with a non-autogenerated manpage
with useful information.
My client, who pointed out the lack of information, is in X-Debbugs-CC.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.47-2 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libselinux1 2.0.65-5 SELinux shared libraries
coreutils recommends no packages.
coreutils suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Version: 7.1-1
This bug [1] has been fixed upstream [2] since version 7.1, and hence in
Debian since version 7.1-1.
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/514675
[2]
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=1eaacac3120f59bd90544d0f4257b87b0df324ee
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