[Pkg-icecast-devel] Bug#573928: Bug#573928: manpage is incomplete and incorrect
Jonas Smedegaard
dr at jones.dk
Sun Jan 16 12:51:40 UTC 2011
Hi John,
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:18:05AM +1030, John Pearson wrote:
>The existing Debian-provided manual page is incoreect and misleading;
>it does not provide sufficient information to use ezstream, and refers
>to upstream info documentation that simply does not exist.
>
>Upstream source now includes a much more comprehensive manpage and
>there does not appear ot be any reason not to package it.
Ah. Thanks for pointing that out. Fixed now in our Git.
>The attached patch removes the poor Debian-specific manpage and
>installs the upstream manpage in its place; it also removes the rules
>for generating the Debian manpage from sgml source and for building
>non-existent info files, and removes the build dependency on
>docbook-to-man and dh-buildinfo.
Whoops - I think you misunderstood a tool there: dh-buildinfo does not
handle info files, but includes buildinfo with binary packages.
>The curerent manpage is so poor, and the upstream manpage so much
>better, that I wish I could justify raising the severity to critical,
>but I cannot. Do we have any wriggle-room this close to release to get
>it fixed?
Too late now for Squeeze. Have been frozen for 6 months - we shouldn't
delay it any further for a minor issue like this.
- Jonas
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