Debian bug report logs - #1680, boring messages

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Subject: Bug#1680: Missing man-pages & a bug in dselect
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From: Juho A Vuori <javuori@cc.helsinki.fi>
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Hi,
I just installed Debian 0.93R6 and noticed something about it.

It seems, there are no man-pages for dselect and dpkg. They are
documented good enough internally, but in my opinion, it would be pretty
nice if as many commands as possible had man-pages, as they are the
first things one checks, when (s)he want's to learn about an unknown
command.

But I noticed a real bug too (just a little one but still annoying).
This happens when I'm selecting which packages to install with dselect.
When I press once 'o', I get to a mode where packages are ordered by
their section. Then, when I scroll the list of packages to near the
bottom, the upper part of screen suddenly stops moving (for me it
happens on package xlockmore, but it might depend, I guess). Everything
works still fine, when I push cursor keys the description of the package
at lower part of the screen changes as it is supposed to do and when I
push the up-arrow few times, things start working correctly again.

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From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Juho A Vuori <javuori@cc.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Bug#1680: Acknowledgement (was: Missing man-pages & a bug in dselect)
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References: <199510151954.VAA08927@kruuna.helsinki.fi>

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From: Juho A Vuori <javuori@cc.helsinki.fi>
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Subject: Missing man-pages & a bug in dselect
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.0.3

Hi,
I just installed Debian 0.93R6 and noticed something about it.

It seems, there are no man-pages for dselect and dpkg. They are
documented good enough internally, but in my opinion, it would be pretty
nice if as many commands as possible had man-pages, as they are the
first things one checks, when (s)he want's to learn about an unknown
command.

But I noticed a real bug too (just a little one but still annoying).
This happens when I'm selecting which packages to install with dselect.
When I press once 'o', I get to a mode where packages are ordered by
their section. Then, when I scroll the list of packages to near the
bottom, the upper part of screen suddenly stops moving (for me it
happens on package xlockmore, but it might depend, I guess). Everything
works still fine, when I push cursor keys the description of the package
at lower part of the screen changes as it is supposed to do and when I
push the up-arrow few times, things start working correctly again.

Message sent:

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Juho A Vuori <javuori@cc.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Bug#1680 acknowledged by developer (was: Missing man-pages & a bug in dselect)
References: <m0t4e5m-0002afZ@chiark.al.cl.cam.ac.uk> <199510151954.VAA08927@kruuna.helsinki.fi>
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