[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#496921: gpgv: man page EXAMPLES section broken

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Thu Aug 28 15:17:48 UTC 2008


Package: gpgv
Version: 1.4.9-3
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

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The EXAMPLES section of gpgv(1) is confusing and unclear.  Attached is
a patch to improve it.

Regards,

	--dkg

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gpgv depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.7-13            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

gpgv recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gpgv suggests:
ii  gnupg                         1.4.9-3    GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep

- -- no debconf information

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--- gpgv.1.orig	2008-08-28 11:12:24.000000000 -0400
+++ gpgv.1	2008-08-28 11:15:27.000000000 -0400
@@ -88,13 +88,13 @@
 .TP
 .B  gpgv \fBpgpfile\fR
 .TP
-.B  gpgv \fBsigfile\fR 
-Verify the signature of the file. The second form
-is used for detached signatures, where \fBsigfile\fR is the detached
-signature (either ASCII-armored or binary) and are the signed
-data; if this is not given the name of the file holding the signed data is
-constructed by cutting off the extension (".asc", ".sig" or ".sign") from
-\fBsigfile\fR.
+.B  gpgv \fBsigfile\fR [\fBdatafile\fR]
+Verify the signature of the file. The second form is used for detached
+signatures, where \fBsigfile\fR is the detached signature (either
+ASCII-armored or binary) and \fBdatafile\fR contains the signed data;
+if \fBdatafile\fR is not given the name of the file holding the signed
+data is constructed by cutting off the extension (".asc", ".sig" or
+".sign") from \fBsigfile\fR.
 
 
 .SH FILES


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