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Bug 61965 - intltool man pages and --help output are incorrect and incomplete
intltool man pages and --help output are incorrect and incomplete
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: intltool
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: High normal
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Assigned To: intltool maintainers
intltool maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-10-08 18:33 UTC by Sven Neumann
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Sven Neumann 2001-10-08 18:33:21 UTC 
The manpages installed with intltools list options that are not available
and omit options that are. The output of intltool-* --help is not very 
helpful either.

For example, the --type=gettext/foo option of intltool-extract is described
nowhere.
Comment 1 John Fleck 2001-12-01 16:05:21 UTC 
Inquiring about this status of this, adding myself to cc line.
Comment 2 Darin Adler 2001-12-01 16:33:54 UTC 
The man pages and --help output is still incorrect and incomplete.

I'd love to assist someone who wants to change the help and man
pages to match reality. It may be a bit challenging, since there are
no-doubt design flaws that will show up if we thoroughly document the
various tools and command line options.
Comment 3 John Fleck 2001-12-01 18:02:25 UTC 
I will send a note to the lists asking for a docs volunteer to help
with this.
Comment 4 Abel Cheung 2003-08-03 20:31:27 UTC 
I've just committed a bunch of updates to manpages and --help messages
to intltool (hope nobody would oppose to the commit). Sven, perhaps
you can check if the new manpages and help messages looks good, and
close this bug? (I have no right to close it.)
Comment 5 Sven Neumann 2003-08-04 15:15:11 UTC 
Too busy with GimpCon preparations to check your changes, but I'll
assume they are fine ...