Package: man-db
Version: 2.7.6.1-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Very bored, decided to see what the output of `man` was by itself.
* What was the outcome of this action?
The following text is outputted to the console: "What manual page do
you want?"
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Since `man` is the only (packaged) program that the user cannot learn
how to use by looking it up with man, (they may lack the knowledge to type `man
man`) man should display some help text when run by itself. What if the user is
told "use man", but doesn't know that you should put the name of the program
that you want to look up as a command line argument?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages man-db depends on:
ii bsdmainutils 9.0.12+nmu1
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.61
ii dpkg 1.18.24
ii groff-base 1.22.3-9
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1
ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-14
ii libpipeline1 1.4.1-2
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5
man-db recommends no packages.
Versions of packages man-db suggests:
ii firefox-esr [www-browser] 52.2.0esr-1~deb9u1
pn groff <none>
ii less 481-2.1
ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-34
-- debconf information excluded
