Control: tag -1 fixed-upstream On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 09:35:21AM -0500, tyler wrote: > * What led up to the situation? > Very bored, decided to see what the output of `man` was by itself. > * What was the outcome of this action? > The following text is outputted to the console: "What manual page do > you want?" > * What outcome did you expect instead? > Since `man` is the only (packaged) program that the user cannot learn > how to use by looking it up with man, (they may lack the knowledge to type > `man man`) man should display some help text when run by itself. What if the > user is told "use man", but doesn't know that you should put the name of the > program that you want to look up as a command line argument?
Thanks for the suggestion! I've done this for the next upstream release: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/man-db.git/commit/?id=c4f4b6585a34ccf44cfb35a1feccb3540d7e4cd3 -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
