Bug#595237: hdfview: underdocumented

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le jeudi 02 septembre 2010 à 12:53 +0200, W. Martin Borgert a écrit :
> Package: hdfview
> Version: 2.6.1-1
> 
> There is
>   - no manual page
>   - no README
>   - no command line option, such as --help
>   - no online help in the package
>   - no example file
> 
> There is an online help, that uses a web browser and connects
> to a remote site hdfgroup.org. I have some objections against
> this kind of help:
>   - the package does not depend on a web browser
>   - the software might be used in an environment not
>     connected to the internet
>   - the site hdfgroup.org might be down or restructured
>   - a user of hdfview might not want, that hdfgroup.org
>     does know about them using the software (privacy!)
I will see what I can do with upstream about this subject.

Thanks for pointing this subject out.
Sylvestre