package bzr-builddeb
severity 517494 serious
thanks
On 01-Mar-2009, Ben Finney wrote:
On 28-Feb-2009, James Westby wrote:
I'm interested in why you feel providing a man page that points
users to the preferred way to get the help for the tool is a bad
thing?
Preferred by whom? The Debian
package bzr-builddeb
tags 517494 + patch
thanks
On 28-Feb-2009, James Westby wrote:
Well, patches welcome.
Please find attached a Bazaar patch bundle, against the repository
specified in the package's ‘Vcs-Bzr’ field, updating the package with
a proper manpage and incorporating it into the
On 02-Mar-2009, Ben Finney wrote:
Please find attached a Bazaar patch bundle, against the repository
specified in the package's ‘Vcs-Bzr’ field, updating the package with
a proper manpage and incorporating it into the Debian packaging.
An updated patch bundle is attached to this message, which
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 20:46 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
Please find attached a Bazaar patch bundle, against the repository
specified in the package's ‘Vcs-Bzr’ field, updating the package with
a proper manpage and incorporating it into the Debian packaging.
I was actually suggesting a patch that
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 23:26 +, James Westby wrote:
I'm not going to merge this now. If your discussion leads to this
becoming an RC bug then I will look at it again. I will also creating
a method to attempt to represent bzr's help output in a manpage to
my TODO list so that this can be
On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 10:39 +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 23:26 +, James Westby wrote:
I'm not going to merge this now. If your discussion leads to this
becoming an RC bug then I will look at it again. I will also creating
a method to attempt to represent bzr's
On 03-Mar-2009, Robert Collins wrote:
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 23:26 +, James Westby wrote:
I'm not going to merge this now. If your discussion leads to this
becoming an RC bug then I will look at it again. I will also creating
a method to attempt to represent bzr's help output in a
On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 10:58 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
bzr has this already.
Has what? Has the capability to represent ‘help’ output as a manpage?
Or has that task as a TODO item?
It has the capability to process the same information it uses to produce
the help output to produce a manpage. If
Package: bzr-builddeb
Version: 0.95
Severity: normal
The program ‘bzr-buildpackage’ has a manpage, but it is virtually no
use:
=
NAME
bzr-buildpackage - build a debian package from a bazaar branch
SEE ALSO
Please see the output of bzr-buildpackage --help, and the file
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 19:47 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
Package: bzr-builddeb
Version: 0.95
Severity: normal
The program ‘bzr-buildpackage’ has a manpage, but it is virtually no
use:
=
NAME
bzr-buildpackage - build a debian package from a bazaar branch
SEE ALSO
On 28-Feb-2009, James Westby wrote:
I'm interested in why you feel providing a man page that points
users to the preferred way to get the help for the tool is a bad
thing?
Preferred by whom? The Debian operating system has a deliberate policy
of providing a manual page for every command,
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 08:23 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
I could auto-generate the man page from this help text, but that's
frankly more work than I am willing to put in.
The manpage system is a standard interface to a standard set of
information about all commands on the system, as promised
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