[debian-mysql] Bug#970251: mysqld manual page is worthless

VA bugs at indigo.re
Sun Sep 13 21:15:38 BST 2020


Package: mysql-server-core-8.0
Version: 8.0.21-1

mysqld(8) does not describe any of the options taken by mysqld command. 
It merely mentions:

        The mysqld program has many options that can be specified at 
startup. For a complete list of options, run this command:

            shell> mysqld --verbose --help

And indeed, the runtime help is more informative:

	% mysqld --verbose --help | wc -l
	2638

Why not simply take the --verbose --help message and use it inside the 
manpage? That would improve the situation without requiring much effort.



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