Package: dino-im Version: 0.4.2-1 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: cont...@dino.im, debbug.dino...@sideload.33mail.com
There is no man page. There is a /usr/share/doc/dino-im/README.md but it contains no user guide. From the Debian Policy Manual¹: “If no manual page is available, this is considered as a bug and should be reported to the Debian Bug Tracking System (the maintainer of the package is allowed to write this bug report themselves, if they so desire). Do not close the bug report until a proper man page is available.” ¹ https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html The best place to fix this is upstream. But I did not tag this bug report as upstream because lack of manpage may or may not be considered a bug upstream, yet nonetheless it is a bug in the Debian scope. The upstream devs have been CC’d, hopefully. What I was expecting to find in the man page is a way to configure a proxy. AFAICT, there are no docs or user guides for dino-im anywhere. The only information is in the Github bug reports and the code. This comment states that dino respects systemwide proxy settings: https://github.com/dino/dino/issues/1103#issuecomment-908595528 But it does not state /how/ dino obtains those settings from the system. In principle, by convention, it should look at the http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables, which would appear in an “ENVIRONMENT” section of the man page. According to this comment: https://github.com/dino/dino/issues/342#issuecomment-384610205 Dino works with proxychains. I believe proxychains is the same as torsocks in terms of what it does and how it works. This comment seems to imply torsocks works with dino-im: https://github.com/dino/dino/issues/567#issuecomment-555233336 This comment mentions using dconf (which is an overloaded word between gnome and debian projects and deprecated in Debian). The coment also says that dino is deliberately designed not to support any proxies: https://github.com/dino/dino/issues/342#issuecomment-385427600 So apparently the only way to proxy dino is to intercept systems calls, IIUC, which is a big hackish IMO. All this confusion from people in the bug tracker reinforces the need for a man page. Ideally the man page would explicitly state that proxy support is not offered, but that proxychains and torsocks works. Or if mentioning the absence of an option is regarded as excessively verbose for a man page, even the mere presence of a man page with no options (apart from maybe -h to print itself) would at least signal to users that the proxy options are likely non-existent. -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (990, 'stable-updates'), (990, 'stable-security'), (990, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-28-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages dino-im depends on: ii dino-im-common 0.4.2-1 ii libadwaita-1-0 1.2.2-1 ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u7 ii libcairo2 1.16.0-7 ii libgcc-s1 12.2.0-14 ii libgcrypt20 1.10.1-3 ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.10+dfsg-1+b1 ii libgee-0.8-2 0.20.6-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.74.6-2+deb12u2 ii libgnutls30 3.7.9-2+deb12u2 ii libgpgme11 1.18.0-3+b1 ii libgraphene-1.0-0 1.10.8-1 ii libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 1.22.0-3+deb12u1 ii libgstreamer1.0-0 1.22.0-2 ii libgtk-4-1 4.8.3+ds-2+deb12u1 ii libgtk-4-media-gstreamer 4.8.3+ds-2+deb12u1 ii libicu72 72.1-3 ii libnice10 0.1.21-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.50.12+ds-1 ii libqrencode4 4.1.1-1 ii libsignal-protocol-c2.3.2 2.3.3-3 ii libsoup-3.0-0 3.2.2-2 ii libsqlite3-0 3.40.1-2 ii libsrtp2-1 2.5.0-3 ii libstdc++6 12.2.0-14 ii libwebrtc-audio-processing1 0.3-1+b1 Versions of packages dino-im recommends: ii ca-certificates 20230311 ii dbus 1.14.10-1~deb12u1 ii fonts-noto-color-emoji 2.042-0+deb12u1 ii network-manager 1.42.4-1 dino-im suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
