On Saturday 5 April 2008 09:32, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> Package: signing-party
> Version: 1.0-1
> Severity: important
>
> I never used springgraph before, but it looks like its invocation syntax
> changed. It seems it now ignores file arguments and only uses stdin and
> stdout. The manpage wasn't updated, and -h doesn't document what
> springgraph does. I must have taken some 20 minutes to realize it wasn't
> hanged but waiting for EOF.

I do not follow a bit of what you mean.

The man page has the following synopsis:
  SYNOPSIS
         springgraph [OPTIONS] < input-file > output-file.png
which I think is quite clear about that it uses standard in and out.

The -h text, although not specifying how to supply input to the program, 
doesn't claim that springgraph accepts filename arguments.

You conclude that its invocation changed yet you've never used it before (???) 
and nothing in the help or manpage claims that you can pass filename 
arguments. You seem to know that some man page wasn't updated to behaviour 
that has been there all the time.

You file this as severity important. Right, how is you not reading the man 
page, or the help text not explicitly stating how to pass input, in any sense 
an important bug?

Please don't bother us again before at least trying to verify the bug you want 
to file and reading up on bug severities. Thanks for your effort though.

bye,
Thijs

p.s. I've left this pending because I did clarify the help text, which 
is "minor" at most.

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