Re: Bug#324784: sharutils: each man page should say how to report a bug

[Bruce Korb]

On Friday 26 August 2005 03:39 pm, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> >> Each man page should mention how to give a bug report to upstream, or
> >> say to see an Info page which will say how to give a bug to upstream.
>
> S> The file /usr/share/doc/sharutils/README has this information, and
> S> there is no excuse to not read the README.

Not only the readme, but ``--help'' and ``--version'' will emit the
bug reporting e-address.

> Well many of
> $ dlocate -man sharutils
> 1 shar
> 1 unshar
> 1 uuencode
> 1 mailshar
> 5 uuencode
> 1 uudecode
> 1 mail-files
> 1 remsync
> seem hardly to admit their relation to the GNU project, even though
> the README does say to send bugs to address@hidden
> Maybe upstream could spiff these up.

The upstream was promised, _promised_ that sharutils was a low maintenance
project that would merely need a tweaking now and then.  :-D.

> The GNU man pages one is used to all mention "GNU" somewhere.

Remember:

1.  this stuff was derived from the BSD stuff.  They don't mention GNU.
    That's the lame excuse. :)
2.  people keep saying over and over that nobody uses it anyway.
3.  I would be completely delighted to receive a patch with suggested
    places for adding "GNU".

Thanks - Bruce