Bug#523861: document Debian-specific behavior in man page

2009-05-10 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 04:04:29PM -0400, Tom Metro wrote: > Filippo Giunchedi wrote: >> ...how about hinting about a debian-specific behavior and pointing the user >> to README.Debian from the manpage ? > > I've seen that done, where a paragraph is tacked on near the end of man > pages that note

Bug#523861: document Debian-specific behavior in man page

2009-04-13 Thread Tom Metro
Filippo Giunchedi wrote: ...how about hinting about a debian-specific behavior and pointing the user to README.Debian from the manpage ? I've seen that done, where a paragraph is tacked on near the end of man pages that notes there is Debian-specific behavior and references README.Debian. Tha

Bug#523861: document Debian-specific behavior in man page

2009-04-13 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 02:33:04AM -0400, Tom Metro wrote: > I'm not a big fan of using the often overlooked README.Debian as the > only means of documenting Debian-specific behavior. A notable change in > behavior should really be addressed in the man page. agreed, how about hinting about a d

Bug#523861: document Debian-specific behavior in man page

2009-04-12 Thread Tom Metro
Package: autossh Version: 1.4a-3 /usr/share/doc/autossh/README.Debian says: autossh is wrapped to choose a random port or fall back to 21021 the real binary is /usr/lib/autossh/autossh In this version of autossh the commandline switch -M overrides AUTOSSH_PORT enviroment, as opposed to