Package: xz-utils Version: 4.999.8beta+20090813-1 Severity: minor Vincent Lefèvre wrote regarding Bug#540232:
> Note: the xz man page (provided by xz-utils) says: > > NAME > xz, unxz, xzcat, lzma, unlzma, lzcat - Compress or decompress > .xz and .lzma files > > SYNOPSIS > xz [option]... [file]... > > unxz is equivalent to xz --decompress. > xzcat is equivalent to xz --decompress --stdout. > lzma is equivalent to xz --format=lzma. > unlzma is equivalent to xz --format=lzma --decompress. > lzcat is equivalent to xz --format=lzma --decompress --stdout. > > However lzma, unlzma and lzcat are provided by xz-lzma. This is a bit > annoying that a command described by a man page is provided by another > package. Thanks. It makes the packaging internally more brittle, too. Probably there should be a separate lzma.1 explaining what lzma, unlzma, and lzcat are for and defering to xz(1) for details. xz(1) would just say SEE ALSO lzma(1) at the bottom, then. Regards, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
