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Bug#960868: marked as done (Mention if --recon meant reconnaissance)

Your message dated Sun, 17 May 2020 20:37:27 +0200
with message-id <20200517203219.GA2016449@debian.org>
and subject line Re: Bug#960868: Mention if --recon meant reconnaissance
has caused the Debian Bug report #960868,
regarding Mention if --recon meant reconnaissance
to be marked as done.

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Package: apt
Version: 2.1.2
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man8/apt-get.8.gz

We read
       -s, --simulate, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon, --no-act

That is great, except for --recon.

The user wonders what it is short for.

So please in the sentence that follows it, mention what the meaning of
it originally was. "Do reconnaissance only"?

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On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 01:43:36AM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 2.1.2
> Severity: wishlist
> File: /usr/share/man/man8/apt-get.8.gz
> 
> We read
>        -s, --simulate, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon, --no-act
> 
> That is great, except for --recon.
> 
> The user wonders what it is short for.
> 
> So please in the sentence that follows it, mention what the meaning of
> it originally was. "Do reconnaissance only"?

It's irrelevant, and we can only guess.

The commit introducing it was "Sync" in 1998 by Jason Gunthrope.
It's a legacy option name, it does not deserve any explanation.

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