FS#38642 - [iputils] ping(8) man page has errors in it

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by David J. Haines (dhaines) - Friday, 24 January 2014, 14:11 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Wednesday, 18 June 2014, 14:35 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 3
Private No

Details

It appears that the manpage for ping(8) isn't being compiled correctly as in the options section, it reads:

...
-B Do not allow ping to change source address of probes. The address is bound to
one selected when ping starts.

Stop after sending count ECHO_REQUEST
...
-V Show version and exit.

Specify a timeout, in seconds, before
ping exits regardless of how many packets have been sent
...

When it should have "-c" and "-w" before "Stop" and "Specify," respectively. I don't really read SGML, but it appears that the option to include the missing parameters simply isn't enabled as part of the build process.
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Wednesday, 18 June 2014, 14:35 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Comment by Daniel Micay (thestinger) - Sunday, 30 March 2014, 02:32 GMT
Can you report this upstream? Arch doesn't typically apply patches to fix something like it.

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