Package: bash Version: 4.1-3 Followup-For: Bug #427804
Please ditto, "me too", nag nag, 4th aniversary, etc. Of course the bigger problem is not just 'bash'. Someday there needs to be a general solution for problems with unavailable "nonfree" 'info' files. For example, many Debian 'man' pages recommend 'info' files, that in Debian haven't been available in (four) years. Because of such obsolete manual references, thousands of Debian users regularly discover such wild goose chases. Beyond that a more general problem: we have software package dependency checking, and we have kernel bootup/hardware/init dependency checking, but no general documentation dependency checking. We might start by never documenting a file that's not there. Therefore there'd need to be some kind of metadata in or about docs, dating and versioning references to specific files, programs, switches, menu locations, and features -- then whenever there's a location or name change to a file, the hypothetical documentation dependency checker would automatically either flag or correct the error. HTH... -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages bash depends on: ii base-files 6.3 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii dash 0.5.5.1-7.4 POSIX-compliant shell ii debianutils 3.4.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.13-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libncurses5 5.9-1 shared libraries for terminal hand Versions of packages bash recommends: ii bash-completion 1:1.3-1 programmable completion for the ba Versions of packages bash suggests: ii bash-doc 4.1-3 Documentation and examples for the -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
