Package: ack
Version: 1.39-9
Severity: normal

command line invoked using '--help' arg shows many available options
but no info about program behabior on given opts.

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[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ack --help
ack v1.39 Copyright 1993,94 Ogasawara Hiroyuki (COR.)
usage: ack [-{e|s|j|c[c]}] [-{a|A|o<file>}] [-zCntud] [-{E|S}] [<file>..]
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man page shows many options but no information about each option.

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SYNOPSIS
       ack [ -{e|s|jn|c} ] [ -{a|A|o file } ] [ -zuCntd ]
            [ -{E|S} ] [ <file>...  ]
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It would be a great thing to have a description on each option.

Cheers


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21.5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ack depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.5-11     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

ack recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information


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