Hi maintainer, I've attached a patch that adds a simple manpage based on help2man. Note that nscd.man is meant to be a symlink to unscd.man (this gets lost in the patch, but the target in debian/rules would create it properly).
I've also put a diff of the unscd package which also adds a systemd unit file (#795621) and upgrades to 0.52 (#795618) in addition to adding the manpage here just in case that's helpful: https://gist.github.com/chriskuehl/028df2a1b6ee183d104d Obviously feel free to ignore my patches, just including in case they are helpful. Cheers, Chris On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 05:29:23PM -0700, Chris Kuehl wrote: > Package: unscd > Version: 0.51-1+b2 > Severity: wishlist > > Howdy maintainer, > > unscd provides the binary /usr/sbin/nscd but does not appear to provide > a corresponding man page. It's my understanding from policy [1] that > this warrants a bug. > > Happy Wednesday, and thanks for your work on Debian! > Chris > > [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s12.1 > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 8.1 > APT prefers stable-updates > APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > Versions of packages unscd depends on: > ii libc6 2.19-18 > > unscd recommends no packages. > > unscd suggests no packages. > > -- Configuration Files: > /etc/nscd.conf changed [not included] > > -- no debconf information
diff -Nru unscd-0.51/debian/help2man unscd-0.52/debian/help2man --- unscd-0.51/debian/help2man 1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800 +++ unscd-0.52/debian/help2man 2015-08-15 13:49:59.000000000 -0700 @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +[authors] +.B unscd +was written primarily by Denys Vlasenko. diff -Nru unscd-0.51/debian/manpages unscd-0.52/debian/manpages --- unscd-0.51/debian/manpages 1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800 +++ unscd-0.52/debian/manpages 2015-08-15 13:53:29.000000000 -0700 @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +debian/nscd.man +debian/unscd.man diff -Nru unscd-0.51/debian/nscd.man unscd-0.52/debian/nscd.man --- unscd-0.51/debian/nscd.man 1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800 +++ unscd-0.52/debian/nscd.man 2015-08-15 13:59:16.000000000 -0700 @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.46.4. +.TH UNSCD "1" "August 2015" "unscd - nscd which does not hang, v.0.52" "User Commands" +.SH NAME +unscd \- nscd which does not hang +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B nscd +[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR...] +.SH DESCRIPTION +Name Service Cache Daemon +.TP +\fB\-d\fR,\-\-debug +Do not daemonize; log to stderr (\fB\-dd\fR: more verbosity) +.HP +\fB\-f\fR,\-\-config\-file File to read configuration from +.TP +\fB\-i\fR,\-\-invalidate +Invalidate cache +.TP +\fB\-K\fR,\-\-shutdown +Shut the server down +.TP +\fB\-t\fR,\-\-nthreads +Serve N requests in parallel +.TP +\fB\-V\fR,\-\-version +Version +.SH AUTHORS +.B unscd +was written primarily by Denys Vlasenko. diff -Nru unscd-0.51/debian/rules unscd-0.52/debian/rules --- unscd-0.51/debian/rules 2013-10-21 17:05:19.000000000 -0700 +++ unscd-0.52/debian/rules 2015-08-15 14:13:30.000000000 -0700 @@ -15,3 +15,10 @@ install -t debian/unscd/usr/sbin/ nscd install -d debian/unscd/etc/ install -m644 -t debian/unscd/etc/ debian/nscd.conf + +manpage: + help2man --name 'nscd which does not hang' \ + --include debian/help2man \ + --no-info \ + debian/unscd/usr/sbin/nscd > debian/unscd.man + ln -fs unscd.man debian/nscd.man diff -Nru unscd-0.51/debian/unscd.man unscd-0.52/debian/unscd.man --- unscd-0.51/debian/unscd.man 1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800 +++ unscd-0.52/debian/unscd.man 2015-08-15 13:59:16.000000000 -0700 @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.46.4. +.TH UNSCD "1" "August 2015" "unscd - nscd which does not hang, v.0.52" "User Commands" +.SH NAME +unscd \- nscd which does not hang +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B nscd +[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR...] +.SH DESCRIPTION +Name Service Cache Daemon +.TP +\fB\-d\fR,\-\-debug +Do not daemonize; log to stderr (\fB\-dd\fR: more verbosity) +.HP +\fB\-f\fR,\-\-config\-file File to read configuration from +.TP +\fB\-i\fR,\-\-invalidate +Invalidate cache +.TP +\fB\-K\fR,\-\-shutdown +Shut the server down +.TP +\fB\-t\fR,\-\-nthreads +Serve N requests in parallel +.TP +\fB\-V\fR,\-\-version +Version +.SH AUTHORS +.B unscd +was written primarily by Denys Vlasenko.
