Bug#439200: update-manager: missing man page

Johannes Wiedersich johannes at physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de
Thu Aug 23 08:49:03 UTC 2007


Package: update-manager
Version: 0.42.2ubuntu22-11
Severity: normal

update-manager (and -notifier) don't have a man page. This is especially annoying as those programs cannot be started as 'ordinary 
user' from the command line, but rather have to be started as 'gksu update-manager', which is not obvious for first-time users. 

The man page should also tell how to access the settings. Especially to kde users it is not obvious, that update-manager's settings 
are changed by running a seperate program called 'Software Properties' from the kde --> settings menue. 

It might be helpful, if the man page would also describe how to acces the program from the menu. In kde it is kde -> Settings -> 
Update Manager. 

[The description in update-manager's help screens just applies to gnome, but I guess that's another bug. ]

Thanks,
Johannes

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages update-manager depends on:
ii  libgnome2-perl             1.040-1       Perl interface to the GNOME librar
ii  lsb-release                3.1-23.2etch1 Linux Standard Base version report
ii  python                     2.4.4-2       An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-apt                 0.6.19        Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii  python-glade2              2.8.6-8       GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii  python-gnome2              2.12.4-6      Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-gnupginterface      0.3.2-9       Python interface to GnuPG (GPG)
ii  python-support             0.5.6         automated rebuilding support for p
ii  synaptic                   0.57.11.1+b1  Graphical package manager

update-manager recommends no packages.

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