On Friday 26 August 2005 03:39 pm, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> >> Each man page should mention how to give a bug report to upstream, or
> >> say to see an Info page which will say how to give a bug to upstream.
>
> S> The file /usr/share/doc/sharutils/README has this information, and
> S> there is no excuse to not read the README.
Not only the readme, but ``--help'' and ``--version'' will emit the
bug reporting e-address.
> Well many of
> $ dlocate -man sharutils
> 1 shar
> 1 unshar
> 1 uuencode
> 1 mailshar
> 5 uuencode
> 1 uudecode
> 1 mail-files
> 1 remsync
> seem hardly to admit their relation to the GNU project, even though
> the README does say to send bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Maybe upstream could spiff these up.
The upstream was promised, _promised_ that sharutils was a low maintenance
project that would merely need a tweaking now and then. :-D.
> The GNU man pages one is used to all mention "GNU" somewhere.
Remember:
1. this stuff was derived from the BSD stuff. They don't mention GNU.
That's the lame excuse. :)
2. people keep saying over and over that nobody uses it anyway.
3. I would be completely delighted to receive a patch with suggested
places for adding "GNU".
Thanks - Bruce
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