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FS#37334 - [rtorrent] missing manual pages

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Petrus (petrus) - Monday, 14 October 2013, 14:53 GMT
Last edited by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Thursday, 17 October 2013, 04:11 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Jaroslav Lichtblau (Dragonlord)
Gaetan Bisson (vesath)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Rtorrent has standard manual, rtorrent.1, please include it.
The manual contains more information than the help printed by the program.
I report that as a bug since I consider documentation an essential part of a package. In particular, if such documentation is easily available, like downloadable and there is no need to preprocess it.

The manual can be downloaded from:

https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/blob/master/doc/old/rtorrent.1

I believe that is a stable location.

Current version: 0.9.3


This task depends upon

Closed by  Gaetan Bisson (vesath)
Thursday, 17 October 2013, 04:11 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Comment by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Monday, 14 October 2013, 17:39 GMT
Do you know why upstream does not ship this manpage as part of its release tarball (say, under the "doc" directory which presently only contains rtorrent.rc)? If not, would you mind asking them?
Comment by Petrus (petrus) - Monday, 14 October 2013, 18:17 GMT
I don't know why the manpage is missing from the release tarball.
If you look at the git source you notice that
there are other docs (markdown-latex) about some specifics too.
However, they don't cover what the manpage does, that is how to use
rtorrent the program.

I have checked other distros, for example, Debian (and its relatives) includes the manual pages.

I think it'd be better if you as the packager contact them.
Comment by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Thursday, 17 October 2013, 04:11 GMT
Jari Sundell (libtorrent and rtorrent developer) says "The reason [why the man page is not included in the release tarball] is that I haven't kept the man page updated and was getting complaints about inaccuracies."

This does not make any more sense for us to be shipping it in our package.

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