make man respond to bzr subcommands

[Karl-Philipp Richter]

It'd be nice if `man bzr [bzr subcommand]` would display the corresponding section for the command rather than the complete manpage of `bzr`.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: bzr 2.6.0+bzr6595-6ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 4.1.0-040100-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Jun 28 13:58:46 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-08 (20 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: bzr
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-06-09 (19 days ago)

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

This would require changes in man first.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

No, it wouldn't; man long ago gained general support for subcommands. All you need to do is arrange for there to be suitable text in e.g. /usr/share/man/man1/bzr-branch.1.gz and "man bzr branch" will display it.

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

Sorry, my bad. The default error message when such a file is not present is misleading. It tries to open the 'bzr' and 'branch' man pages sequentially AFAICT.

[tony hutcherson (tnhutcherson472)]

hope this works

[tony hutcherson (tnhutcherson472)]

ok

[tony hutcherson (tnhutcherson472)]

what am i supposed to do not a programmer

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Tony, please leave this bug alone and stop closing it. At the moment you're doing the equivalent of walking into somebody else's office and erasing to-do list items from their whiteboard without explaining why.

[Vincent Ladeuil (vila)]

Please don't mess up bug statuses if you're not involved in fixing them.

[tony hutcherson (tnhutcherson472)]

ok then what do i do

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 3:53 AM, Vincent Ladeuil <<email address hidden>
> wrote:

> Please don't mess up bug statuses if you're not involved in fixing them.
>
> ** Changed in: bzr
> Status: Fix Released => Confirmed
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1469495
>
> Title:
> make man respond to bzr subcommands
>
> Status in Bazaar:
> Confirmed
> Status in bzr package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in man-db package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> It'd be nice if `man bzr [bzr subcommand]` would display the
> corresponding section for the command rather than the complete manpage
> of `bzr`.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
> Package: bzr 2.6.0+bzr6595-6ubuntu1
> Uname: Linux 4.1.0-040100-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: Unity
> Date: Sun Jun 28 13:58:46 2015
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-08 (20 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64
> (20140417)
> PackageArchitecture: all
> ProcEnviron:
> TERM=xterm
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: bzr
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-06-09 (19 days ago)
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
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[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

That would depend rather a lot on what your goal is. For the purposes of this bug report, though, the answer is probably that the next step on it is for a developer to prepare a fix, and if you aren't a developer then you should do nothing.

[tony hutcherson (tnhutcherson472)]

okay thanks didnt i apologise for any inconvience will i get message or
will it get fixed without me

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 4:39 AM, Colin Watson <email address hidden>
wrote:

> That would depend rather a lot on what your goal is. For the purposes
> of this bug report, though, the answer is probably that the next step on
> it is for a developer to prepare a fix, and if you aren't a developer
> then you should do nothing.
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1469495
>
> Title:
> make man respond to bzr subcommands
>
> Status in Bazaar:
> Confirmed
> Status in bzr package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in man-db package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> It'd be nice if `man bzr [bzr subcommand]` would display the
> corresponding section for the command rather than the complete manpage
> of `bzr`.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
> Package: bzr 2.6.0+bzr6595-6ubuntu1
> Uname: Linux 4.1.0-040100-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: Unity
> Date: Sun Jun 28 13:58:46 2015
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-08 (20 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64
> (20140417)
> PackageArchitecture: all
> ProcEnviron:
> TERM=xterm
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: bzr
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-06-09 (19 days ago)
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/1469495/+subscriptions
>