Bug#642992: exim -v is not as described in the manual page

Regid Ichira regid23 at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 26 11:00:57 UTC 2011


Package: exim4-daemon-light
Version: 4.76-2
severity: normal
Tags: patch
File: /usr/share/man/man8/exim4.8.gz

    $ /usr/sbin/exim -v
    Exim is a Mail Transfer Agent. It is normally called by Mail User Agents,
    not directly from a shell command line. Options and/or arguments control
    what it does when called. For a list of options, see the Exim documentation.

That output is not consistent with the manual page.

--- exim4.8     2011-09-26 13:39:45.000000000 +0300
+++ exim4.8.mod 2011-09-26 13:46:51.000000000 +0300
@@ -1545,12 +1545,7 @@
 .TP 10
 \fB\-v\fP
 This option causes Exim to write information to the standard error stream,
-describing what it is doing. In particular, it shows the log lines for
-receiving and delivering a message, and if an SMTP connection is made, the SMTP
-dialogue is shown. Some of the log lines shown may not actually be written to
-the log if the setting of \fBlog_selector\fP discards them. Any relevant
-selectors are shown with each log line. If none are shown, the logging is
-unconditional.
+describing shortly and generaly what it is all about.
 .TP 10
 \fB\-x\fP
 AIX uses \fB\-x\fP for a private purpose ("mail from a local mail program has






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