Bug#797265: debcheckout: trivial manpage enhancement

Daniel Shahaf danielsh at apache.org
Fri Aug 28 22:34:26 UTC 2015


Package: devscripts
Version: 2.15.3
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

The man page of debcheckout(1) does not indicate that the -f option
takes an argument.  The attached patch (against git v2.15.8-20-g323181c)
fixes it.

[[[
diff --git a/scripts/debcheckout.pl b/scripts/debcheckout.pl
index 4a28f36..7e5a1b0 100755
--- a/scripts/debcheckout.pl
+++ b/scripts/debcheckout.pl
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ should be one of the currently supported repository types.
 Specify the login name to be used in authenticated mode (see B<-a>). This option
 implies B<-a>: you don't need to specify both.
 
-=item B<-f>, B<--file>
+=item B<-f> I<FILE>, B<--file> I<FILE>
 
 Specify that the named file should be extracted from the repository and placed
 in the destination directory. May be used more than once to extract multiple
]]]

Cheers,

Daniel



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