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Re: Bugs in unexpand(1) version 6.10


From: Karl Berry
Subject: Re: Bugs in unexpand(1) version 6.10
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:31:57 -0600

    $ ls --version
    ls (GNU coreutils) 6.12
    Packaged by ... some distro string here ...

That looks like the right place to me.  I'd be tempted to put a blank
line between "Packaged by ..." and "Copyright ...".

Please include a url to your downstream coreutils package in the distro string.

This seems fine, but can we also include the information in --help,
which is what we did when we amended the coding standards a few days
ago?  For instance, grep 2.5.4 --help ends with:

  Report bugs to: address@hidden
  GNU Grep home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/>
  General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

I suggest having another line such as
  Gentoo Grep home page and bug reports: <http://whatever>
between "Report bugs to" and "GNU Grep home page".

Perhaps even the address in "Report bugs to:" should be changed also.

Perhaps that same line should be used in --version and --help.  I assume
we're trying to get across the same information.

karl





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