Package: mtp-tools Version: 1.1.6-51-g1a2669c~ds0-1 Followup-For: Bug #658367
Dear Maintainer, Here's what -h actually does: <quote> eddy:1:vortex> mtp-detect -h mtp-detect: invalid option -- 'h' Unable to open ~/.mtpz-data for reading, MTPZ disabled.libmtp version: 1.1.6 Listing raw device(s) Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is a Samsung Galaxy models (MTP). Found 1 device(s): Samsung: Galaxy models (MTP) (04e8:6860) @ bus 4, dev 6 Attempting to connect device(s) PTP_ERROR_IO: failed to open session, trying again after resetting USB interface LIBMTP libusb: Attempt to reset device LIBMTP PANIC: failed to open session on second attempt Unable to open raw device 0 OK. </quote> This takes several minutes. Given that it is doing freaky things to my phone - reset ? what ? eek ! - a reasonable ignorant user may be distinctly nervous both of letting it run and of interrupting it. Not a nice experience; definitely bad news to have the man page mislead one into it. Note that -V, -v and --version also get errors, similar to those above for -h. Running strings /usr/bin/mtp-detect didn't reveal anything useful, either. However, strings does find Usage messages for some (but by no means all) other /usr/bin/mtp-*, albeit the messages omit the mtp- prefix from the command names (e.g. mtp-hotplug has a usage message for "hotplug") rather than having a %s to be filled in by basename(argv[0]). The mtpfs man page (separate package, mtpfs) makes the same bogus claim, with similar results when I actually try to use -h or --help. But that package appears to be obsolete now. Eddy. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages mtp-tools depends on: ii libc6 2.18-7 ii libmtp9 1.1.6-51-g1a2669c~ds0-1 mtp-tools recommends no packages. mtp-tools suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org