Bug#1062772: apt: apt.conf(5) should document all options

2024-02-20 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi Wesley, > /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index. It documents all the options you > can find. ah, interesting. It does not document all the options I can find, though. It lists them all. Some have a short comment, which for a small number of them passes for documentation; default

Bug#1062772: apt: apt.conf(5) should document all options

2024-02-20 Thread Wesley Schwengle
Hi Thorsten, I would expect apt.conf(5) to document any and all configuration items one can do to apt*, either directly or by other manpages referenced from “SEE ALSO”. The man page of apt.conf shows the following: EXAMPLES /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz is a

Bug#1062772: apt: apt.conf(5) should document all options

2024-02-02 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Package: apt Version: 2.2.4 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@mirbsd.de With “apt-config dump”, one can see lots of options, but they mostly are not documented, so for example APT::Cmd::Pattern-Only (which only shows up in Binary::apt:: so even “apt-config dump” hides some options unless they