imagemagick: New man page links to wrong URL

Jhair Tocancipa Triana jhair_tocancipa at gmx.net
Sun Nov 13 12:32:19 UTC 2005


Peter Garrett writes:

> As they say, i cannot fully reproduce this bug ;-)

> If I type 

> man imagemagick

> I get a perfectly normal-looking man page, which discusses the
> usual commands ( animate, convert, display etc etc ) There are
> perfectly adequate man pages for these commands as well, referenced
> at the bottom...

I think the OP is complaining about `man display` which indeed has no
in-depth information about the display command, but a bogus link to
the HTML docs.

Michael McIntyre writes:

> The new Image Magick package has a rather useless man page (eg. man
> display) that relies on the HTML docs for more information.  The
> man page links to

>        For more information about this command, point your browser
>        to file:///usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-6.2.3/index.html.

OTH, incomplete man pages are to be expected in any GNU system[1]. For
example, the prefered way to document GNU programs is to use Texinfo
instead of man pages (at least that is what the FSF expects).

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[1] http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/InfoVsManpage

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