Package: netpbm Version: 2:10.0-12 Severity: normal The option is actually '-minneighbor' in the source. Ironically since pbmclean supports abbreviated options omitting any positive number of letters off the end of the suggested '-minneighbors' works.
The man page also says the -N form was removed in December 2001 when it's actually still there. Here's a patch to the man page to fix these mistakes and clarify it a bit. Andrew -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages netpbm depends on: ii libc6 2.9-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libnetpbm10 2:10.0-12 Shared libraries for netpbm ii libpng12-0 1.2.35-1 PNG library - runtime ii libtiff4 3.8.2-11 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime Versions of packages netpbm recommends: ii ghostscript-x [gs-aladdin] 8.64~dfsg-1.1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF netpbm suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
--- pbmclean.1.orig 2003-08-21 16:28:39.000000000 +0100 +++ pbmclean.1 2009-05-22 07:23:36.000000000 +0100 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .SH SYNOPSIS .B pbmclean -.RB [ -minneighbors=\fIN\fR ] +.RB [ -minneighbor=\fIN\fR ] .RB [ -black | -white ] .RI [ pbmfile ] @@ -13,16 +13,9 @@ two hyphens instead of one. You can separate an option name from its value with white space instead of an equals sign. -Before December 2001, -.B pbmclean -accepted -.BI - N -instead of -.BR -minneighbors . - .SH DESCRIPTION .B pbmclean -cleans up a PBM image of random specs. It reads a PBM image as input +is designed to clean up "snow" on bitmap images. It reads a PBM image as input and outputs a PBM that is the same as the input except with every pixel which has less than .I N @@ -32,26 +25,22 @@ .I N is 1 - only completely isolated pixels are flipped. -(A value of -.I N -greater than 8 generates a completely inverted image (but use -.B pnminvert -to do that) -- or a completely white or completely black image with -the -.B -black -or -.B -white -option). - .B pbmclean considers the area beyond the edges of the image to be white. (This matters when you consider pixels right on the edge of the image). -You can use -.B pbmclean -to clean up "snow" on bitmap images. - .SH OPTIONS +.TP +.B -minneighbor=\fIN\fR +Change pixels with less than N identical neightbours. A value of +.I N +greater than 8 generates a completely inverted image (but use +.B pnminvert +to do that) +.TP +-\fIN\fR +Legacy form of +.B -minneighbor=\fIN\fR .TP .B -black .TP