Bug#379563: galternatives has no man page

[Andrew Burton <adb@iinet.net.au>]

Package: galternatives
Version: 0.13.1
Severity: serious
Tags: patch
Justification: Policy 12.1

galternatives does not contain a man page, in violation of the Debian Policy Manual, section 12.1. The attached file is a suggested man page for this package.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.3-20060705
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages galternatives depends on:
ii  python                        2.3.5-11   An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-glade2                 2.8.6-3    GTK+ bindings: Glade support

Versions of packages galternatives recommends:
ii  gksu                          1.9.1-2    graphical frontend to su

-- no debconf information

..TH "galternatives" "1"
..SH "NAME"
galternatives \- A front-end to the update-alternatives
..SH "SYNOPSIS"
\fBgalternatives
..SH "DESCRIPTION"
..B galternatives
is a front-end to the Debian update-alternatives tools. galternatives allows the user to specify a preferred application to handle commonly-used commands.
..SH "AUTHOR"
..PP
This manual page was written by Andrew Burton adb@iinet.net.au for the \fBDebian GNU/Linux\fP system (but may be used by others).