Debian bug report logs - #1680
Missing man-pages & a bug in dselect

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Subject: Re: Bug#1680: Missing man-pages & a bug in dselect
To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
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> > 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.
> 
> I agree that there should be manpages.  I don't have time to write
> them.  Volunteers gladly accepted.

Hm, I'm not working on anything too important right now, so I guess I
could write them. (It may take a little time though, for several
reasons)

> > 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.
> 
> Are you sure you were using dselect from dpkg 1.0.3 ?  There was a bug
> like this in 1.0.2, but I think I fixed it in 1.0.3.

The dselect I have on my computer is the one from installation disks of
Debian 0.93R6. It says in /var/lib/dpkg/available, that it's 1.0.3, but
it could propably be a typo or something there.. I'll try upgrading to a
newer dpkg.

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From: Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Bug#1680: Missing man-pages & a bug in dselect

Juho A. Vuori writes ("Bug#1680: Missing man-pages & a bug in dselect"):
> 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.

I agree that there should be manpages.  I don't have time to write
them.  Volunteers gladly accepted.

> 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.

Are you sure you were using dselect from dpkg 1.0.3 ?  There was a bug
like this in 1.0.2, but I think I fixed it in 1.0.3.

Ian.

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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.