dbus-send man page inaccurate about supported types

Bug #134010 reported by Philipp Kohlbecher
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dbus (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: dbus

The dbus-send man page states that the only supported types are: string, int32, uint32, double, byte, boolean. That is inaccurate or outdated: At least the type "array" is supported as well.

I am using feisty with dbus 1.0.2-1ubuntu4.

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In , Jspaar (jspaar) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=8307)
document syntax for arrays, etc. in dbus-send.1

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In , Hp-pobox (hp-pobox) wrote :

Thank you, this patch looks good and needed.

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Philipp Kohlbecher (xt28) wrote :

Binary package hint: dbus

The dbus-send man page states that the only supported types are: string, int32, uint32, double, byte, boolean. That is inaccurate or outdated: At least the type "array" is supported as well.

I am using feisty with dbus 1.0.2-1ubuntu4.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug is known upstream you can track it here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9553

Changed in dbus:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
Changed in dbus:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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In , Simon McVittie (smcv) wrote :

Thankyou for providing this patch. Since you filed this bug, the process of relicensing D-Bus to the MIT/X11 license quoted here has been started. Would you be willing for your patch to be relicensed as follows?

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In , Jspaar (jspaar) wrote :

(In reply to comment #3)
> Would you be willing for your patch to be relicensed as follows [MIT/X11]?

Yes, I hereby give my permission to relicense the patch under the MIT/X11 license.

s/ Jack Spaar, this 9th Oct. 2007

PS -- I hope this means you're going to actually apply it ;)

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In , Johnp-redhat (johnp-redhat) wrote :

pushed to git Thanks

Changed in dbus:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

that's fixed already on hardy, thanks.

Changed in dbus:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Changed in dbus:
importance: Unknown → Medium
Changed in dbus:
importance: Medium → Unknown
Changed in dbus:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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