[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#276952: newlist: man page and command out of sync

Thijs Kinkhorst thijs at debian.org
Fri Aug 11 09:31:00 UTC 2006


> Hi,
> 
> newlist(8) lists -q, -o and -h as possible options for newlist, while
> the newlist command really accepts -q -l and -h.
> 
>  (i) this is, obviously, a bug
>  (ii) a wishlist: bring -o back, to be more precise, bring 'append to
>  /etc/aliases and then run newaliases', which is probably the most
>  frequently used case.

I've fixed (i). I'm not convinced that (ii) is a good idea, since that
feature has been removed about five years ago by upstream; there's other
ways to accomplish the same thing.


Thijs
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