Re: Bug#854948: apt-config: manpage not specific enough about the main functionality of the tool
Control: reassign -1 apt
apt-config is part of the apt package.
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 01:06:23PM +0100, Christian Buhtz wrote:
> Package: apt-config
> Severity: minor
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> the first lines of the german(!) manpage of apt-config (Debian unstable) are
> not specific enough.
>
> They don't tell exactly with clear words what the tool does. Because of that
> and because of the name of the tool the user can implicite that it is possible
> to modify the configuration of apt with it. But it is not possible - when I
> understand it correct.
>
> Please reformulate the lines and maybe add the information that it is not
> possible to modifiy the configuration. Please check the english (original?)
> version of the manpage for the same issues.
>
> kind
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 9.0
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.9.9-towo.1-siduction-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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