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Bug#541486: marked as done (install-info: [manpage] install-info - Please add EXAMPLES section)

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Package: install-info
Version: 4.13a.dfsg.1-4
Severity: wishlist


The program contains many options and its call syntax offers various
arguments.

Please add EXAMPLES section to the manual page to typical use cases
(options, files, directories).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages install-info depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-23     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

install-info recommends no packages.

install-info suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

--- End Message ---
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On 30.01.19 22:09, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> On 14.08.09 Jari Aalto (jari.aalto@cante.net) wrote:

>> The program contains many options and its call syntax offers various
>> arguments.
>>
>> Please add EXAMPLES section to the manual page to typical use cases
>> (options, files, directories).
>>
> We got a response from Karl Berry, but he did not respond to our
> mailing list. ;-(
> 
> <quote src=KB>
> I agree, but I'm not going to have a chance to do this any time soon.
> If you or someone else can send me text, I'll be happy to include it, of
> course.
> 
> By the way, any such patch should be relative to the --help message, not
> the man page.  The man page is generated with help2man.
> 
> Another possibility is to add more documentation about install-info to
> texinfo.txi.  Currently it is effectively the same as the --help
> message.
> <quote>
> 
> Are you willing to contribute and generate some examples you'd like to
> see in the man page?
> 
No reaction from submitter for half a year, probably not interested in
request any more. Closing the wishlist bug.

Hilmar
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