Your message dated Sun, 17 May 2020 20:37:27 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#960868: Mention if --recon meant reconnaissance has caused the Debian Bug report #960868, regarding Mention if --recon meant reconnaissance to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: apt Version: 2.1.2 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man8/apt-get.8.gz We read -s, --simulate, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon, --no-act That is great, except for --recon. The user wonders what it is short for. So please in the sentence that follows it, mention what the meaning of it originally was. "Do reconnaissance only"?
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--- Begin Message ---On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 01:43:36AM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 2.1.2 > Severity: wishlist > File: /usr/share/man/man8/apt-get.8.gz > > We read > -s, --simulate, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon, --no-act > > That is great, except for --recon. > > The user wonders what it is short for. > > So please in the sentence that follows it, mention what the meaning of > it originally was. "Do reconnaissance only"? It's irrelevant, and we can only guess. The commit introducing it was "Sync" in 1998 by Jason Gunthrope. It's a legacy option name, it does not deserve any explanation. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
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