Package: coreutils
Version: 8.5-1
Severity: normal

The man page of timeout doesn't match the provided timeout command.

man page:
--version
  output version information and exit

execute:
/usr/bin/timeout --version

output:
usage: /usr/bin/timeout [-signal] time command...

expect:
version of timeout



man page:
DURATION is an integer with an optional suffix: `s' for seconds(the default), 
`m' for minutes, `h' for hours or `d' for days.

execute:
/usr/bin/timeout 1m sleep 5; echo $?

output:
Timeout: aborting command ``sleep'' with signal 9
Killed
137

expect:
0



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii  libacl1                       2.2.49-4   Access control list shared library
ii  libattr1                      1:2.4.44-2 Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-10  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.96-1   SELinux runtime shared libraries

coreutils recommends no packages.

coreutils suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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