Package: procps
Version: 1:3.2.7-11
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/free

The -o option only seems to remove the buffers line, but it does not
amend the numbers, as promised by the manpage:

  If the -o option is not specified, free subtracts buffer memory
  from the used memory and adds it to the free memory reported.

khyber:~|master|% free; free -o                                                 
                                                                                
                                               #486
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:      16474548   16391620      82928          0      81344   15800492
-/+ buffers/cache:     509784   15964764
Swap:      3903480        164    3903316
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:      16474548   16391620      82928          0      81344   15800492
Swap:      3903480        164    3903316

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.9-8          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20090411-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  lsb-base                  3.2-22         Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii  psmisc                        22.6-1     Utilities that use the proc filesy

procps suggests no packages.

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