Bug#439200: update-manager: missing man page

[Sven Arvidsson]

forcemerge 404813 439200
thanks

On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 10:49 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> 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. ]

Hi,

Thanks for the bug report and the pointers, the lack of a man page was
already reported as bug 439200, so I will merge the bugs. 

Any help in writing the man page is welcome!

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
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