'man hardinfo' is of very poor quality
Bug #654970 reported by
Detlef Lechner
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| hardinfo (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: hardinfo
The contents of 'man hardinfo' lack the essential information that a user needs to use the program hardinfo intelligently. It is too short. It is not detailled. It is very old.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: hardinfo 0.5.1-1.1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 5 05:56:36 2010
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=de_DE:de
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: hardinfo
Revision history for this message
| Detlef Lechner (detlef-lechner) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in hardinfo (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
Revision history for this message
| Leandro A. F. Pereira (lafp) wrote | #2 |
Revision history for this message
| Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in hardinfo (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
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That man page was created for the 0.2 and 0.3 series -- it is seriously outdated. Also, it was created mostly to shut lintian up, which made it pretty much useless.
I don't have time right now to write proper documentation, but the next version of HardInfo (which I pretend to release this year, I promise!) should have a built-in documentation viewer.
Is anyone here interested in helping create this documentation? If so, open a bug report upstream (either from the Help submenu or directly from http://