Ubuntu
pulseaudio package

pulseaudio manpage is neutered

Bug #318660 reported by David Tombs
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pulseaudio (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Nominated for Intrepid by David Tombs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

pulseaudio:
  Installed: 0.9.10-2ubuntu9.2

Pulseaudio's manpage (`man pulseaudio`) is very incomplete, seemingly due to a debian-specific manpage added to the package[1] before pulseaudio supplied its own[2].

Since pulseaudio now includes its own manpage, which is much more useful, the one under debian/manpages/pulseaudio.1 should be removed. I have no idea what the procedure for doing this is, or I would upload a patch to do it.

Feel free to contact me for more information.

References:
[1]: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-pulseaudio/pulseaudio.git;a=history;f=debian/manpages/pulseaudio.1;h=df4c7b6d7b2799a48004cdb27e84cec2ad37371d;hb=HEAD
[2]: http://pulseaudio.org/browser/man/pulseaudio.1.xml.in?rev=bff4ca431b0146cb0cbb3935905f50714072a0d9

Daniel T Chen (crimsun)
Changed in pulseaudio:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
Daniel T Chen (crimsun)
Changed in pulseaudio:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
David Tombs (dgtombs) wrote :

Thanks for taking care of this Daniel. Looking at your branch, shouldn't the old manpages themselves (in debian/manpages) be deleted?

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package pulseaudio - 0.9.14-0ubuntu2

---------------
pulseaudio (0.9.14-0ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Add fixes from trunk:
    - 0012_clarify_driver_error_redirect_to_alsa_devs.patch
  * Add 0013_add_padsp_wrapper_check.patch (LP: #269939)
  * debian/pulseaudio.manpages:
    debian/pulseaudio-esound-compat.manpages:
    debian/pulseaudio-utils.links:
    - Install upstream man pages (LP: #219669, #318660),
    - Link to pacat for parec man page (LP: #294628)

 -- Daniel T Chen <email address hidden> Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:57:54 -0500

Changed in pulseaudio:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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