Package: pulseaudio Version: 6.0-2 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer,
pulseaudio(1) reads this for ‘--start’: --start Start PulseAudio if it is not running yet. This is different from starting PulseAudio without --start which would fail if PA is already running. PulseAudio is guaranteed to be fully initialized when this call returns. Implies --daemon. But the option is described as ‘-D | --daemonize’: -D | --daemonize[=BOOL] Daemonize after startup, i.e. detach from the terminal. In fact /usr/bin/pulseaudio accepts ‘--daemon’, too, since it accepts any of its options as long as they are unambiguous (in fact, ‘--da’ suffices), but that is not mentioned in pulseaudio(1). It seems kind of confusing to have the man page refer to the same option by different names. Regards, Sebastian -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (550, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (40, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii libasound2 1.0.28-1 ii libasound2-plugins 1.0.28-1+b1 ii libc6 2.19-18 ii libcap2 1:2.24-8 ii libdbus-1-3 1.8.18-1 ii libfftw3-single3 3.3.4-2 ii libgcc1 1:5.1.1-9 ii libice6 2:1.0.9-1+b1 ii libltdl7 2.4.2-1.11 ii liborc-0.4-0 1:0.4.23-2 ii libpulse0 6.0-2 ii libsm6 2:1.2.2-1+b1 ii libsndfile1 1.0.25-9.1 ii libspeexdsp1 1.2~rc1.2-1 ii libstdc++6 5.1.1-9 ii libsystemd0 220-4 ii libtdb1 1.3.5-1 ii libudev1 220-4 ii libwebrtc-audio-processing-0 0.1-3 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.6.3-1 ii libxcb1 1.10-3+b1 ii libxtst6 2:1.2.2-1+b1 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+nmu1 ii pulseaudio-utils 6.0-2 ii udev 220-4 Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends: ii pulseaudio-module-x11 6.0-2 ii rtkit 0.11-2 Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests: ii paman 0.9.4-1 ii paprefs 0.9.10-1 ii pavucontrol 3.0-3 ii pavumeter 0.9.3-4 -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ pkg-pulseaudio-devel mailing list pkg-pulseaudio-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-pulseaudio-devel