Package: dput
Version: 0.11.0
Severity: minor
Control: submitter -1 Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org>

As reported by Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> in
Message-ID: <87eg0splyx....@hope.eyrie.org>:

> I have never managed to work out how to use dcut […] in fewer than
> five tries each time I've needed to use it. I'm not sure what it is
> with that command, but I find it completely baffling to use correctly.
> Usually I manage to find some way to name the wrong thing in the
> command, refer to it incorrectly, or pick the wrong way to do whatever
> I'm trying to do. And I use it so rarely that I never remember what
> mistakes I made the next time I try.

This should be addressed by, at least, improving the ‘dcut(1)’ manual
page so that it properly describes how to use the existing interface.

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Ben Finney <bign...@debian.org>

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