[Aptitude-devel] Bug#521190: aptitude state-bundle command man pages should be informative

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 - help newcomer + pending


2015-11-13 17:02 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo:
>Control: severity -1 minor
>Control: tags -1 + help newcomer
>
>
>Hi Gokdeniz,
>
>2009-03-25 16:00 Gokdeniz Karadag:
>>package: aptitude
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Man pages for aptitude-create-state-bundle  and  aptitude-run-state-bundle do
>>not explain their purpuse clearly.
>>
>>Man pages state "what" they do ( "unpacks bundle, invokes program" etc. ) but
>>does not hint "why" you should be doing it.
>>
>>It should detail what the user will achive by running this pair of commands and
>>is it a complete replacement of "dpkg --set-selections < file && apt-get
>>dselect-upgrade"
>
>Thanks for the report.
>
>I am tagging it as +help in the case that somebody feels generous and
>wants to handle this bug.

Added note in the man pages that this is intended for special/debugging
purposes only.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>