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invocation'"
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Package: coreutils
Version: 8.5-1
Severity: wishlist
I'm not sure I should even be complaining about this, since I'd much
rather have a manpage per executable than have to fish the information
out of info, but... pinky(1) says:
# SEE ALSO
# The full documentation for pinky is maintained as a Texinfo
# manual. If the info and pinky programs are properly installed at
# your site, the command
#
# info coreutils 'pinky invocation'
#
# should give you access to the complete manual.
If this is true, the complete manual consists of the words
No menu item `pinky invocation' in node `(coreutils.info.gz)Top'.
Indeed,
$ zcat /usr/share/info/*.gz | grep pinky || echo $?
returns "1" (though "grep -i" finds a "Pinky and the Brain" ref). The
version at http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html
is just as uninformative. Of course, there's always the alternative
of "info pinky", giving the "(*manpages*)pinky" fallback complete with
SEE ALSO section.
If the manpage is the only documentation anybody has ever written for
pinky, it shouldn't send me on a wild goose chase looking for a more
complete manual elsewhere.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.49-4 Access control list shared library
ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-2 Extended attribute shared library
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries
coreutils recommends no packages.
coreutils suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)
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Package: coreutils
Version: 9.5-1
Closing this bug since I added 'pinky' to the manual upstream [1]. The
fix is contained in version 9.5 and later.
Thanks,
Collin
[1]
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/44c9578a084cd99a437a01e913c89e20d02da9f5
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