On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:12 AM, trouble daemon <troubledae...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Package: bsign > Version: 0.4.5 > Severity: minor > > I was checking out the bsign man page, and was following the example syntax > for creating and verifying a hash, but I got stumped when it said: > > $ bsign --check-hash /bin/bash > $ parse error 2 at word 132635 > > It seems that upon closer inspection, the man page has a typo. The > "COMMANDS" > section correctly says "-c, --checkhash", but the "EXAMPLES" section shows > the > syntax as "bsign --check-hash file" (note the hyphen), which bsign > considers as > unknown syntax. > > Aside from the minor typo, perhaps a more descriptive error message could > help? > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 5.0.4 > APT prefers stable > APT policy: (500, 'stable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) > Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > -- no debconf information > > > > Thanks for the report. IIRC, the error is telling us where the parser failed. Indeed, it could be more clear.
