Re: minimal documentation or usefulness of new package -- teleport?
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 12:50, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Colour me /clueless, but triggered by DWN, I tried
> teleport, without much avail:
Note that DWN simply picks up new packages; maintainers aren't asked
whether they want them advertised or not. An initial teleport package
has been in unstable for two days; use it with the normal caveats which
apply to unstable.
> Woohoo! Moving the Emacs*) between work and home, is that really
> possible?
Not until the GTK Emacs uses libdisplaymigration (or supports the
relevant protocol by another method) - GTK doesn't currently include
support for the protocol directly.
> Hmm, no (Debian) docs.
Indeed. Why do you assume that there would be Debian-specific documents?
Something noting the current lack of widespread support for the display
migration protocol could be useful, but hasn't yet been written -
however, that might more usefully go into the man page.
> Hmm, no info pages.
Indeed. Why do you assume there would be info documents? If you prefer
the info interface to man's, then running 'info teleport' would get you
the man page in the info reader.
I suspect you'd save time on Debian systems by looking for man pages
before other possible forms of documentation.
> Hmm, useless manpage.
>
> Hmm, --help does not display help, nor does -h.
Do you usually feed programmes random options not included in their
man pages? The man page is correct in not listing them. At the moment
(upstream) teleport simply ignores options which it doesn't understand,
including these.
Please file bugs rather than ranting on debian-devel. The upstream
source is buggy, but does work to allow testing of libdisplaymigration
on different systems.
--
Moray
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