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xdg-user-dirs package

xdg-user-dirs has no man pages; URL in README is incorrect

Bug #381490 reported by Mike Hicks
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: xdg-user-dirs

The xdg-user-dirs package doesn't contain any man pages or other documentation for the main two binaries (xdg-user-dir, xdg-user-dirs-update) and the /usr/share/doc/xdg-user-dirs/README file only contains the following statement:

    See info at:
    http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fxdg_2duser_2ddirs

I would prefer that the package include man pages for its binaries, but if that's not considered practical, then at least update the README to point at the correct URL, which is currently http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs

This is on Ubuntu 9.04 with xdg-user-dirs version 0.10-1ubuntu2.

Tags: manpage
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Changed in xdg-user-dirs (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
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C de-Avillez (hggdh2) wrote :

a patch is welcome... bitesize, I would guess

Changed in xdg-user-dirs (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
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Frank Cheung (fcuk112) wrote :

added debdiff patch - first time to add a manpage so hope i did it correctly.
added motu sponsors.

Changed in xdg-user-dirs (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your work there, do you think you could also send your change upstream and to the debian bug?

Changed in xdg-user-dirs (Ubuntu):
importance: Medium → Low
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Frank Cheung (fcuk112) wrote :

no problem, how do i do that exactly?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

debian bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=524903, you can mail to <email address hidden> to add a comment to it...

Changed in xdg-user-dirs (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

The manpage should describe how the command can be used, you can give it one of the stock keywords and it will return the corresponding directory, unsubscribing the sponsors for now until the change get update and sent to debian

papukaija (papukaija)
tags: added: manpage
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Γουργιώτης Γιώργος (aka Gourgi) (gourgi) wrote :

i was about to report the same but instead i found this one.
It is sad that i had to search the web to find the man pages for xdg-user-dirs.
I actually found the man pages from open-solaris, so i post the url here for quick reference.

* http://www.unix.com/man-page/OpenSolaris/1/xdg-user-dir/

* http://www.unix.com/man-page/OpenSolaris/1/xdg-user-dirs-update/

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Γουργιώτης Γιώργος (aka Gourgi) (gourgi) wrote :

it is also sad that searching ubuntu manpages finds nothing.
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search.py?q=xdg-user-dir&op=&cx=003883529982892832976%3A5zl6o8w6f0s&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&siteurl=manpages.ubuntu.com%252Fcgi-bin%252Fsearch.py%253Fq%253Dman%2526titles%253DTitle

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Changed in xdg-user-dirs (Debian):
status: New → Fix Released
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

This was fixed in Ubuntu 13.10 Alpha "Saucy":

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdg-user-dirs/0.15-1ubuntu1

Changed in xdg-user-dirs (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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