Package: util-linux Version: 2.12r-8 Severity: wishlist whatis cytune cytune (8) - Tune Cyclades driver parameters
This seems unnecessarily cryptic; not just obscure, but obscure in a way that forces readers to wrack their brains for any context that would explain what a "Cyclades driver" is or why software for tuning its parameters should have been automatically installed on their new laptop. The only way they can tell that it's a man page they'll never need to read is by reading it! Indeed, even when they've invoked "man cytune" it takes a bit of reading between the lines to work out that it isn't talking about the Aegean island group, the "Cyclades Network" from the seventies, or any item of hardware currently available from the Californian KVM manufacturers known as "Cyclades Corporation". No, the man page is talking about tuning a particular specialised piece of kit that cyclades.com used to manufacture way back in the early days of Linux ISPs. Hence this wishlist patch designed to make the man page more self-explanatory in its obscurity: diff -ru util-linux-2.12r.orig/sys-utils/cytune.8 util-linux-2.12r/sys-utils/cytune.8 --- util-linux-2.12r.orig/sys-utils/cytune.8 2004-12-22 15:12:35.000000000 +0000 +++ util-linux-2.12r/sys-utils/cytune.8 2006-06-22 21:11:00.000000000 +0100 @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ .\" " .TH CYTUNE 8 " 4 Mar 1995" "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME -cytune \- Tune Cyclades driver parameters +cytune \- Tune driver parameters for Cyclades-Z multiport serial card .SH SYNOPSIS .BI "cytune [-q [-i " interval "]] ([-s " value "]|[-S " value "]) [-g|G] " .BI ([-t " timeout" ]|[-T " timeout" ]) " tty" " [" tty " ...]" Maybe one to send upstream, definitely not one to delay Etch for. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i586) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.hurakan Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages util-linux depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.5-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libslang2 2.0.6-2 The S-Lang programming library - r ii libuuid1 1.39-1 universally unique id library ii lsb-base 3.1-10 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime util-linux recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- JBR Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
