[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#320073: libldap2-dev: Many functions undocumented

[Russ Allbery]

Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> writes:
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 06:34:48PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
>> This should be much better as of 2.4.7-5, and in particular both of the
>> examples you listed (ldap_initialize and ldap_get_option) now have man
>> pages.  If you notice other omissions, please feel free to open a bug
>> citing specific missing man pages.
>
> While ldap_initialize is /documented/ in a manpage, the manpage is only
> installed as ldap_init(3), not ldap_initialize(3) - so not very
> findable.  I think there's a fix still required here.

ldap_initialize is a link to ldap_init, so man should cope, no?  I admit
that I assumed without checking that the latest release fixed all the man
page symlinks, since 2.4.7-5 didn't make the last archive pulse.

> Ditto ldap_get_option; I can't even see any manpages in libldap2-dev
> that look like obvious candidates for this.  Where did you find this
> documented?

Well, doc/man/man3/ldap_get_option.3.  Are we not installing it?

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>