Your message dated Sun, 15 Dec 2013 12:41:30 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#671342: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #544782, regarding psfgettable: Manual and "-h" show different usage to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: console-tools Version: 1:0.2.3dbs-65.1 Severity: normal The manual claims different usage than the output from "psfgettable -h": ----From the command---- Usage: psfgettable psffont chartable [outfile] ... valid options are: -f --font=f psffont filename -o --outfile=f output filename -h --help display this help text and exit -V --version display version information and exit ----End of output from command---- ----From the manual---- psfgettable fontfile [outfile] If the font file name is a single dash (-), the font is read from standard input. ---End from the manual----- The word "chartable" is not explained. Testing shows (e.g. "gunzip -c \ /usr/share/consolefonts/iso01.f16.psf.gz > file") 1) command line from manual works 2) options -f and -o work 3) if the command reads from standard input according to the manual, an error is issued: stdin: Illegal seek NOTE: The word "illegal" should not be used in error messages in computer codes. Instead the word "invalid" is appropriate. See "GNU Coding Standards" in "www.gnu.org/prep/standards/". "Chapter 6.1 GNU Manuals", second last paragraph. Version from 7th June 2009. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26c Locale: LANG=is_IS, LC_CTYPE=is_IS (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages console-tools depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libconsole 1:0.2.3dbs-65.1 Shared libraries for Linux console ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip Versions of packages console-tools recommends: ii console-common 0.7.80 basic infrastructure for text cons ii console-data 2:1.07-11 keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fall Versions of packages console-tools suggests: ii kbd-compat 1:0.2.3dbs-65.1 Wrappers around console-tools for -- no debconf information -- B. Gislason
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 2:0.2.3-73+rm Dear submitter, as the package console-tools has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see http://bugs.debian.org/671342 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Joerg Jaspert (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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