Bug#777344: grep-excuses: Minor inaccuracies in manpage
Ian Jackson
ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Sat Feb 7 15:41:59 UTC 2015
Package: devscripts
Version: 2.15.1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The patch below is also available in this dgit-history-based git
branch:
git://git.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ianmdlvl/devscripts.git#dgit/sid
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=devscripts.git;a=log;h=refs/heads/dgit/sid
I have not included here any updates to debian/changelog.
Thanks,
Ian.
>From 3d25de2c15c0bb12a533c026350d5573c143c4dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Jackson <ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 15:16:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] grep-excuses: Minor manpage corrections
Fix two errors in the manpage intro paragraph: grep-excuses uses wget,
not libwww-perl, and it can take a package name instead of a
maintainer.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk>
---
scripts/grep-excuses.1 | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/grep-excuses.1 b/scripts/grep-excuses.1
index f098c09..38767e9 100644
--- a/scripts/grep-excuses.1
+++ b/scripts/grep-excuses.1
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ grep-excuses \- search the testing excuses files for a specific maintainer
\fBgrep-excuses\fR [\fIoptions\fR] [\fImaintainer\fR|\fIpackage\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBgrep-excuses\fR downloads the update_excuses.html file and greps it
-for the specified maintainer name. The \fBlibwww-perl\fR package is
+for the specified maintainer or package name. The \fBwget\fR package is
required for this script. If no name is given on the command line,
first the environment variable \fBDEBFULLNAME\fR is used if it is
defined, and failing that, the configuration variable described below
--
1.7.10.4
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