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[Bug 1376068] [NEW] Incorrectly described arguments to kill

 

Public bug reported:

This new bug reporting process is very confusing to me, so apologies if
I just filed something useless. All I wanted to do was simply state an
inaccuracy in the manpage of kill. It describes the argument --list for
listing available signals, which does not work:

 $ kill --list
 kill: unknown signal: SIG-LIST
 kill: type kill -l for a list of signals

`kill -l` does work correctly. This bug does not seem to exist in
upstream util-linux, so perhaps the version in Ubuntu 14.04 is just
lagging a little. Let me know if more information is required.

 $ dpkg -l util-linux:
 | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
 |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
 ||/ Name                          Version             Architecture        Description
 +++-=============================-===================-===================- ===============================================================
 ii  util-linux                    2.20.1-5.1ubuntu20. amd64               Miscellaneous system utilities

 $ apt-cache policy util-linux
 util-linux:
   Installed: 2.20.1-5.1ubuntu20.1
   Candidate: 2.20.1-5.1ubuntu20.1
   Version table:
  *** 2.20.1-5.1ubuntu20.1 0
         500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
      2.20.1-5.1ubuntu20 0
         500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

 $ lsb_release -rd
 Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
 Release:        14.04

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: util-linux 2.20.1-5.1ubuntu20.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-36.63-generic 3.13.11.6
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-36-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Oct  1 10:33:10 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-29 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: util-linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: util-linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty

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Title:
  Incorrectly described arguments to kill

Status in “util-linux” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This new bug reporting process is very confusing to me, so apologies
  if I just filed something useless. All I wanted to do was simply state
  an inaccuracy in the manpage of kill. It describes the argument --list
  for listing available signals, which does not work:

   $ kill --list
   kill: unknown signal: SIG-LIST
   kill: type kill -l for a list of signals

  `kill -l` does work correctly. This bug does not seem to exist in
  upstream util-linux, so perhaps the version in Ubuntu 14.04 is just
  lagging a little. Let me know if more information is required.

   $ dpkg -l util-linux:
   | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
   |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
   ||/ Name                          Version             Architecture        Description
   +++-=============================-===================-===================- ===============================================================
   ii  util-linux                    2.20.1-5.1ubuntu20. amd64               Miscellaneous system utilities

   $ apt-cache policy util-linux
   util-linux:
     Installed: 2.20.1-5.1ubuntu20.1
     Candidate: 2.20.1-5.1ubuntu20.1
     Version table:
    *** 2.20.1-5.1ubuntu20.1 0
           500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
           100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
        2.20.1-5.1ubuntu20 0
           500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

   $ lsb_release -rd
   Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
   Release:        14.04

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: util-linux 2.20.1-5.1ubuntu20.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-36.63-generic 3.13.11.6
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-36-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.4
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Wed Oct  1 10:33:10 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-29 (1 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
  SourcePackage: util-linux
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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