Bug#368383: dumb manual page for... NAME section on many man pages

2006-06-01 Thread A. Costa
On Wed, 24 May 2006 02:17:28, Brendan O'Dea [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Feel free to raise new bugs on other packages. The following pair of one-liners might be of use to somebody... % apropos manual page for cddb-slave2-properties (1) - manual page for Gnome

Bug#368383: dumb manual page for... NAME section on many man pages

2006-06-01 Thread A. Costa
This mostly works for '.deb' files. # print the archive name and the 'whatis' line of any man pages in it. dope() { D=$1 ; dpkg-deb -c $D | grep '^-.*man' | while read a b c d e f ; do echo $f ; done | while read x ; do basename $x ; done | tr . ' ' | while read a b c ; do

Bug#368383: dumb manual page for... NAME section on many man pages

2006-05-23 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:29:16PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glad that you guys will take care of this, as it is way over my head. It's not complex. The problem manual pages have been generated with a program [help2man] which interprets a program's --help output. Unfortunately, it's not

Bug#368383: dumb manual page for... NAME section on many man pages

2006-05-22 Thread Brendan O'Dea
dotlock (1) - manual page for dotlock (GNU Mailutils 0.6.93) This is the default NAME section generated by help2man. Fairly useless, but there needs to be *some* default. Suggest that you file bugs on the particular packages which need either to provide a --name=short description

Bug#368383: dumb manual page for... NAME section on many man pages

2006-05-22 Thread jidanni
Glad that you guys will take care of this, as it is way over my head. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#368383: dumb manual page for... NAME section on many man pages

2006-05-21 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: man-db Version: 2.4.3-3 Severity: normal Yuck: $ apropos manual\ page\ for|head -n 4 burn (1) - manual page for burn burn-configure (1) - manual page for burn-configure cdxa2mpeg (1)- manual page for cdxa2mpeg 0.7.23 dotlock (1) - manual page for dotlock

Bug#368383: dumb manual page for... NAME section on many man pages

2006-05-21 Thread Colin Watson
reassign 368383 general thanks On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 12:36:08AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: Package: man-db Version: 2.4.3-3 Severity: normal Yuck: $ apropos manual\ page\ for|head -n 4 burn (1) - manual page for burn burn-configure (1) - manual page for burn-configure