package bzr-builddeb
severity 517494 serious
thanks
On 01-Mar-2009, Ben Finney wrote:
> On 28-Feb-2009, James Westby wrote:
> > I'm interested in why you feel providing a man page that points
> > users to the preferred way to get the help for the tool is a bad
> > thing?
>
> Preferred by whom? Th
On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 10:58 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > bzr has this already.
>
> Has what? Has the capability to represent ‘help’ output as a manpage?
> Or has that task as a TODO item?
It has the capability to process the same information it uses to produce
the "help" output to produce a manpa
On 03-Mar-2009, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 23:26 +, James Westby wrote:
> >
> > I'm not going to merge this now. If your discussion leads to this
> > becoming an RC bug then I will look at it again. I will also creating
> > a method to attempt to represent bzr's "help" outpu
On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 10:39 +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 23:26 +, James Westby wrote:
> >
> > I'm not going to merge this now. If your discussion leads to this
> > becoming an RC bug then I will look at it again. I will also creating
> > a method to attempt to represent
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 23:26 +, James Westby wrote:
>
> I'm not going to merge this now. If your discussion leads to this
> becoming an RC bug then I will look at it again. I will also creating
> a method to attempt to represent bzr's "help" output in a manpage to
> my TODO list so that this ca
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 20:46 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Please find attached a Bazaar patch bundle, against the repository
> specified in the package's ‘Vcs-Bzr’ field, updating the package with
> a proper manpage and incorporating it into the Debian packaging.
I was actually suggesting a patch tha
On 02-Mar-2009, Ben Finney wrote:
> Please find attached a Bazaar patch bundle, against the repository
> specified in the package's ‘Vcs-Bzr’ field, updating the package with
> a proper manpage and incorporating it into the Debian packaging.
An updated patch bundle is attached to this message, whi
package bzr-builddeb
tags 517494 + patch
thanks
On 28-Feb-2009, James Westby wrote:
> Well, patches welcome.
Please find attached a Bazaar patch bundle, against the repository
specified in the package's ‘Vcs-Bzr’ field, updating the package with
a proper manpage and incorporating it into the Debi
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 08:23 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > I could auto-generate the man page from this help text, but that's
> > frankly more work than I am willing to put in.
>
> The manpage system is a standard interface to a standard set of
> information about all commands on the system, as prom
On 28-Feb-2009, James Westby wrote:
> I'm interested in why you feel providing a man page that points
> users to the preferred way to get the help for the tool is a bad
> thing?
Preferred by whom? The Debian operating system has a deliberate policy
of providing a manual page for every command, pre
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 19:47 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Package: bzr-builddeb
> Version: 0.95
> Severity: normal
>
> The program ‘bzr-buildpackage’ has a manpage, but it is virtually no
> use:
>
> =
> NAME
> bzr-buildpackage - build a debian package from a bazaar branch
>
> SEE ALSO
>
Package: bzr-builddeb
Version: 0.95
Severity: normal
The program ‘bzr-buildpackage’ has a manpage, but it is virtually no
use:
=
NAME
bzr-buildpackage - build a debian package from a bazaar branch
SEE ALSO
Please see the output of bzr-buildpackage --help, and the file
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