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Message #05253
[Bug 784758] Re: Wrong documentation for 'od'
Hello, I don't know about this new status... I reported this bug at the
time of Lucid, now in Precise, we have version 8.13 of coreutils as apt-
get shows
$ apt-cache show coreutils
Package: coreutils
Essential: yes
Priority: required
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 5496
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Original-Maintainer: Michael Stone <mstone@xxxxxxxxxx>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 8.13-3ubuntu3.1
Replaces: mktemp, timeout
Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info
Pre-Depends: libacl1 (>= 2.2.51-5), libattr1 (>= 1:2.4.46-5), libc6 (>= 2.15), libselinux1 (>= 1.32)
Conflicts: timeout
Filename: pool/main/c/coreutils/coreutils_8.13-3ubuntu3.1_amd64.deb
In this version 8.13 I can confirm that the documentation bug (in fact translation bug) is fixed for me.
I had an exchange with the maintainer by e-mail, and this translation
bug was affecting also other languages. I can confirm only for French
though.
So I'll stop watching this bug as for me it has status:
==> fixed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/784758
Title:
Wrong documentation for 'od'
Status in The Gnu Core Utilities:
Invalid
Status in Ubuntu Translations:
Triaged
Status in “coreutils” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
Binary package hint: coreutils
The documentation from
od --help
and from
man od
diverge on the short name for the --string option.
od --help says:
-s, --strings[=BYTES]
(note the lowercase -s)
man od says:
-S, --strings[=BYTES]
(note now it is uppercase -S)
The right documentation for this option is the one in the 'man',
because the desired featured is indeed achieved through -S
(uppercase).
Thus od --help displays wrong informations and should be corrected.
(Probably upstream ?)
I discovered that trying to port a script I wrote for Lucid to a BusyBox running on a NAS.
Unfortunately the guys at BusyBox programmed as it is documented in the --help, and thus BusyBox's od and GNU's od have diverging features.
... nasty trick GNU guys have plaid to BusyBox, and they should
probably be warned (if they don't already know because I have to cope
with an old BusyBox).
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