Package: coreutils Version: 6.10-6 Severity: normal The manpage for id does not describe what information it prints. It should state that by default, the information printed is the username and userid, default/current group name and group id, and the list of groups (and the group ids) to which that user belongs, instead of merely stating "Without any OPTION, print some useful set of identified [sic] information."
The description should be changed from "Print information for USERNAME, or the current user." to "Print information about the user and groups for the user specified by USERNAME, or the current user if USERNAME is not specified." A user who has never heard of id should be able to determine how to properly use it by looking solely at the manual page. In its current state, that's apparently not the case; hence, this bug. If you specify whether you'd like the manpage in man, mdoc, or DocBook 5.0 format, I'll happily provide you with a non-autogenerated manpage with useful information. My client, who pointed out the lack of information, is in X-Debbugs-CC. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.47-2 Access control list shared library ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 2.0.65-5 SELinux shared libraries coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only troff on top of XML: http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc/code/thwack OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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