Bug#629871: missing man pages for ecasound-iam, ecatools, ecalength

[Alessandro Ghedini]

retitle 629871 Move ecasound-iam manpage from ecatools to ecasound package
tags 629871 pending
thanks

Hi Joel,

sorry for the late reply.

On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 12:20:38PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: 
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 10:21:20AM +0200, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 04:34:42PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> > > No result for 'man' command.  
> > > 
> > > According to http://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/ecasound/filelist
> > > 
> > > There should be man pages in /usr/share/man/man1/
> > > 
> > > However removing and reinstalling the package, the man files
> > > are not present.
> > 
> > Please note that the ecatools (as well as their manpages) have been moved 
> > to the 'ecatools' package since version 2.8.0-1, to avoid a circular
> > dependency between ecasound and python-ecasound.
> 
> >   $ dpkg -L ecatools | grep man1
> >   /usr/share/man/man1/ecalength.1.gz
> >   /usr/share/man/man1/ecatools.1.gz
> >   /usr/share/man/man1/ecasound-iam.1.gz
> >   /usr/share/man/man1/ecasignalview.1.gz
> >   /usr/share/man/man1/ecanormalize.1.gz
> >   /usr/share/man/man1/ecamonitor.1.gz
> >   /usr/share/man/man1/ecafixdc.1.gz
> >   /usr/share/man/man1/ecaplay.1.gz
> >   /usr/share/man/man1/ecaconvert.1.gz
> 
> That's all good, however the man page for ecasound-iam,
> which is necessary to use ecasound interactively, is 
> in ecatools.  I think it should be moved to ecasound. 
> 
> Finally, someone trying out ecasound may be expecting the
> docs and ecatools utilities. These packages are relatively
> small. Could they be recommended (so they are pulled in
> automatically)?  IMO they should be suggested, at least.
>  
> > Also, the file list on packages.d.o is quite outdated :)
> 
> Good to know, also about dpkg -L.
> 
> Thanks again for what has turned out to be a rather complex
> packaging job!

I've pushed to git the changes that you suggested (moving the manpage and
Suggests: ecatools in the ecasound package).

Alessio, I've prepared a new upload on git, could you please have a look?

Cheers

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