apt-get --help conflicts with both man page and reality
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apt (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Michael Vogt |
Bug Description
apt-get --help says, among other things:
-f Attempt to continue if the integrity check fails
under Options. The man page differs significantly:
-f, --fix-broken
Fix; attempt to correct a system with broken dependencies in place. This option, when
used with install/remove, can omit any packages to permit APT to deduce a likely so
tion is sometimes necessary when running APT for the first time; APT itself does not
allow broken package dependencies to exist on a system. It is possible that a sys
tems dependency structure can be so corrupt as to require manual intervention (which
The man page is correct.
Related branches
Changed in apt: | |
importance: | Untriaged → Medium |
status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
Changed in apt: | |
assignee: | nobody → mvo |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
I've given up trying to make a debdiff with this package. When I recover from this frustration I'll try a good-old-fashioned diff.