Bug#711508: gnome-terminal: man page is outdated

[niku]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 3.4.1.1-2
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

Gnome-terminal’s lead developer Christian Persch tells on the linked page
that Debian man’s page of the project (which is in turn used by other
distributions) is outdated. In particular, he reports two developments missing
from the man page:

(i) the options -e and -x are now deprecated.
(ii) `--' is the substitute for both of them.

Can a maintainer please contact him and update the man page to reflect this
(and possibly other) changes? According to changelog.Debian.gz, the man page
was last updated in 2005.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701691  <-- please ignore the
lengthy first post on that page.

Thanks.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gconf-service              3.2.5-1+build1
ii  gnome-terminal-data        3.4.1.1-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.4.2-3
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.4.0-2
ii  libc6                      2.13-38
ii  libgconf-2-4               3.2.5-1+build1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.4.2-6
ii  libice6                    2:1.0.8-2
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.30.0-1
ii  libsm6                     2:1.2.1-2
ii  libvte-2.90-9              1:0.32.2-1
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  dbus-x11  1.6.8-1
ii  gvfs      1.12.3-4
ii  yelp      3.4.2-1+b1

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information