man page documentation differs from actual program

Bug #403080 reported by Donny Viszneki
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
exuberant-ctags (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

From these man pages:

/usr/share/man/man1/ctags-exuberant.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ctags.1.gz

Excerpt:

       Note also that the boolean parameters to the long form options (those
       beginning with "--" and that take a "[=yes|no]" parameter) may be omit‐
       ted, in which case "=yes" is implied. (e.g. --sort is equivalent to
       --sort=yes). Note further that "=1" and "=on" are considered synonyms
       for "=yes", and that "=0" and "=off" are considered synonyms for "=no".

Actual behavior:

donny@pacemates:~$ ctags --sort=yes /dev/null
donny@pacemates:~$ ctags --sort /dev/null
ctags: Invalid value for "sort" option

Revision history for this message
Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote :

Confirmed using the current svn snapshot (5.9~svn20110310-0ubuntu1).

Changed in exuberant-ctags (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
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