[syncpackage] syncpackage and its manpage disagree completely

Bug #598477 reported by Michael Bienia
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubuntu-dev-tools (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Andrew Starr-Bochicchio

Bug Description

Imported from Debian bug 587142:

Package: ubuntu-dev-tools
Version: 0.100
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/syncpackage

Hi,

the /usr/bin/syncpackage --help and man syncpackage completely disagree on the
usage, the options, etc.

Cheers,

OdyX

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (750, 'unstable'), (700, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (700, 'testing'), (90, 'experimental'), (50, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (50, 'experimental'), (50, 'unstable'), (50, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ubuntu-dev-tools depends on:
ii binutils 2.20.51.20100405-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii dctrl-tools 2.14 Command-line tools to process Debi
ii devscripts 2.10.64 scripts to make the life of a Debi
ii diffstat 1.47-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.7.2 Debian package development tools
ii lsb-release 3.2-23.1 Linux Standard Base version report
ii python 2.6.5-5 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-apt 0.7.95 Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii python-debian 0.1.16 Python modules to work with Debian
ii python-launchpadlib 1.6.1-1 Launchpad web services client libr
ii python-lazr.restfulcl 0.9.18-1 client for lazr.restful-based web
ii python-support 1.0.8 automated rebuilding support for P
ii sudo 1.7.2p7-1 Provide limited super user privile

Versions of packages ubuntu-dev-tools recommends:
ii bzr 2.1.2-1 easy to use distributed version co
ii ca-certificates 20090814 Common CA certificates
ii debootstrap 1.0.23 Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii genisoimage 9:1.1.10-1 Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii libwww-perl 5.836-1 Perl HTTP/WWW client/server librar
ii pbuilder 0.198 personal package builder for Debia
ii perl-modules 5.10.1-13 Core Perl modules
ii reportbug 4.12.3 reports bugs in the Debian distrib

Versions of packages ubuntu-dev-tools suggests:
pn qemu-kvm-extras-static <none> (no description available)

-- no debconf information

Related branches

Revision history for this message
Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :

The --help output is the correct one. The man page needs to be updated.

Changed in ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Changed in ubuntu-dev-tools (Debian):
importance: Undecided → Unknown
Benjamin Drung (bdrung)
summary: - /usr/bin/syncpackage: syncpackage and its manpage disagree completely
+ [syncpackage] syncpackage and its manpage disagree completely
Changed in ubuntu-dev-tools (Debian):
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
assignee: nobody → Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-dev-tools - 0.101

---------------
ubuntu-dev-tools (0.101) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Andrew Starr-Bochicchio ]
  * syncpackage: Update manpage to reflect current usage. (Closes: #587142,
    LP: #598477)
  * ubuntu-build: Update manpage to reflect current usage. (LP: #490535)
  * edit-patch: Add manpage. (LP: #538379)
  * massfile: Add manpage.
  * pull-debian-debdiff: Add manpage.
  * setup-packaging-environment: Add manpage.
  * ubuntu-iso: Add manpage.

  [ Benjamin Drung ]
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.1 (no changes required).
  * Switch to dpkg-source 3.0 (native) format.
  * Switch to simple dh7 rule.
  * syncpackage:
    - Use Version class from python-debian to fix extraction of upstream
      version for debian versions that contain more than one dash.
    - Prepend script name to every output
    - Output every executed command in verbose mode
    - Print proper error message if the dsc file is malformed.
  * update-maintainer: Add a --quiet option.
  * suspicious-source: Replace with total rewrite in Python using python-magic.

  [ Michael Bienia ]
  * ubuntutools/lpapi/lpapicache.py: Use the new LP API method
    archive.checkUpload() to check upload permissions.
  * Add "import-bug-from-debian" written by James Westby.
  * Add python-soappy to Recommends.
  * requestsync: Fix bug where the variable 'hasLP' is not always set
    (lp: #607874).

  [ Steve Beattie ]
  * mk-schroot: add debootstrap include/exclude options
  * mk-schroot.1: document added options
 -- Luca Falavigna <email address hidden> Wed, 04 Aug 2010 10:06:44 +0000

Changed in ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in ubuntu-dev-tools (Debian):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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