Bug#788397: pulseaudio: PulseAudio's man page pulseaudio(1) mentions ‘--daemon’ but describes it as ‘--daemonize’

[Felipe Sateler]

Control: tags -1 confirmed upstream
Control: forwarded -1

On 10 June 2015 at 19:52, Sebastian Fontius <sebastian.fontius at gmx.net> wrote:
> Package: pulseaudio
> Version: 6.0-2
> Severity: minor
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> pulseaudio(1) reads this for ‘--start’:
>
>        --start
>               Start PulseAudio if it is not running yet.  This is
>               different from starting PulseAudio without --start which
>               would fail if PA is already running.  PulseAudio is
>               guaranteed to be fully initialized when this call
>               returns. Implies --daemon.
>
> But the option is described as ‘-D | --daemonize’:
>
>        -D | --daemonize[=BOOL]
>               Daemonize after startup, i.e. detach from the terminal.
>
> In fact /usr/bin/pulseaudio accepts ‘--daemon’, too, since it accepts
> any of its options as long as they are unambiguous (in fact, ‘--da’
> suffices), but that is not mentioned in pulseaudio(1).  It seems kind
> of confusing to have the man page refer to the same option by
> different names.

I have sent a patch upstream to use --daemonize in the --start description.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler