Bug#854802: minidlna: The options --user annd --uuid in the manpage are not clear enough described

[Alexander Gerasiov]

Hello Christian,

On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 16:03:41 +0100
Christian Buhtz  wrote:

> Package: minidlna
> Version: 1.1.6+dfsg-1
> Severity: minor
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> in the manpage of minidlna.conf the options "user" and "uuid" are not
> clear enough.
Thanks, I fixed this:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/minidlna.git/commit/?id=afa85dc8e23aeb062c8977d5c80c02cefdb0c874

> 
> I am not sure but I think they are the same. The differences is only
> that one use the user name as a string and the other as a number.
> Correct?
Nope.
user is to specify user name or user id to run as.
uuid is to set device's UPnP UUID (and should not be confused with uid).

> 
> This should be clear in the manapge that they are belong together.
> And please see the default minidlna.conf. In the comment for "user"
> it sounds like that an ID could also be used there for the option
> "user".
user accepts both name and id, but you should set option
in /etc/default/minidlna, as mentioned in minidlna.conf(5).


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Bug#854802: minidlna: The options --user annd --uuid in the manpage are not clear enough described

[Christian Buhtz]

Package: minidlna
Version: 1.1.6+dfsg-1
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

in the manpage of minidlna.conf the options "user" and "uuid" are not clear
enough.

I am not sure but I think they are the same. The differences is only that one
use the user name as a string and the other as a number. Correct?

This should be clear in the manapge that they are belong together. And please
see the default minidlna.conf. In the comment for "user" it sounds like that an
ID could also be used there for the option "user".

Quite confusing.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.8-towo.2-siduction-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
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 minidlna depends on:
ii  adduser  3.115
ii  libavformat577:3.2.2-2
ii  libavutil55  7:3.2.2-2
ii  libc62.24-9
ii  libexif120.6.21-2
ii  libflac8 1.3.2-1
ii  libid3tag0   0.15.1b-12
ii  libjpeg62-turbo  1:1.5.1-2
ii  libogg0  1.3.2-1
ii  libsqlite3-0 3.16.2-2
ii  libvorbis0a  1.3.5-4
ii  lsb-base 9.20161125

minidlna recommends no packages.

minidlna suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/minidlna.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information