Bug#522066: discover: Discover docs suggestion

[David <wizzardx@gmail.com>]

Package: discover
Version: 2.1.2-3
Severity: wishlist

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Hi.

discover in Etch used to have a very simple and user-friendly syntax, eg:

discover disk
discover disk --device
discover video --xdriver

Newer discover versions have completely changed the above syntax,
requiring bus-type info and such. I still haven't figured out how to
do all of the above with the new discover syntax.

My suggestion is to add a section to the the discover docs
(/usr/share/doc/discover/guide.html, or man page) which shows how to
do common things (with the old syntax), using discover's new syntax,
or with alternate utilities. This would help users like myself adjust
to the new syntax.

Thanks for your time.

David.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_ZA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages discover depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.26     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libdiscover2                  2.1.2-3    hardware identification library

discover recommends no packages.

Versions of packages discover suggests:
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-22     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

-- debconf information:
  discover/install_hw_packages: