Thanks a lot Christophe for noticing that point. I updated the manpage accordingly. Please find attached the corrected files.
Regards, Joseph
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NAME
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how-can-i-help - show opportunities for contributing to Debian
SYNOPSIS
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*how-can-i-help* ['-ahq'] ['--help'] ['--all'] ['--quiet']
DESCRIPTION
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*how-can-i-help* hooks into APT to list opportunities for contributions to
Debian (orphaned packages, bugs tagged 'gift') for packages installed
locally, after each APT invocation. It can also be invoked directly, and
then lists all opportunities for contribution (not just the new ones).
OPTIONS
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Options must come before the other command line arguments.
*-h*, *--help*::
Show some help.
*-a*, *--all*::
Show all opportunities for contribution.
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*-q*, *--quiet*::
Do not display header and footer.
PROXY SUPPORT
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*how-can-i-help* uses the HTTP_PROXY (or http_proxy) environment variable as
http
proxy configuration. Be carefull when using how-can-i-help directly with the
sudo command, you must have set the http_proxy variable in root's bashrc and
launch the sudo command with a '-i' option.
As it is executed after the APT invocations, the same configuration applies when
using APT with sudo.
RUNNING ON REGULAR BASIS
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You can run *how-can-i-help* in a cron job as normal user so that you
recieve a mail when new things are reported. To recieve only mails when new
contributions are recieve, use the '-q' flag.
Crontab example:
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00 08 * * * how-can-i-help -q
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ADDITIONAL PACKAGES
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*how-can-i-help* can also monitor packages not installed locally. These are
listed in ~/.config/how-can-i-help/packages separated by whitespaces or
newlines.
For example one can monitor all package from a server as follow:
# ssh myserver dpkg -l | tail -n+5 | awk '{ print $2 }' \
>> ~/.config/how-can-i-help/packages
SEE ALSO
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https://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-help
AUTHOR
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Lucas Nussbaum ([email protected])
DATE
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2013-10-30
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