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and subject line Re: Bug#655211: sudo: add non EBNF'ed manpages
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regarding sudo: add non EBNF'ed manpages
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: sudo
Version: 1.8.3p1-2
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
please consider adding a more descriptive manpage avoiding EBNF syntax. Most
users are not developers or coders per se and imho it should not be expected
mandatory for a user to understand that kind of description, even if it is
explained in the manpage itself!
So in absolute contrast to #101856, please devs, coders, manpage-writers,
avoid EBNF in user documentation wherever possible!
regards
Michael
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages sudo depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-24
ii libpam-modules 1.1.3-6
ii libpam0g 1.1.3-6
sudo recommends no packages.
sudo suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/sudoers [Errno 13] Keine Berechtigung: u'/etc/sudoers'
/etc/sudoers.d/README [Errno 13] Keine Berechtigung: u'/etc/sudoers.d/README'
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 1.9.5-1
On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 11:35:35AM +0100, Michael Schmitt wrote:
> please consider adding a more descriptive manpage avoiding EBNF syntax.
The sudoers man page still has EBNF, but has become a lot more
descriptive. I am therefore closing this bug for version 1.9.5, because
I cannot easily find out when the man page improvement actually took
place. If it's still not descriptive enough, please re-open this issue.
Greetings
Marc
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