Command line utilities do not have man pages

Bug #1298765 reported by Chris Halse Rogers
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu Application Launcher
Confirmed
Low
Unassigned
ubuntu-app-launch (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

✘  ~/Canonical/X/mesa  ± master  man upstart-app-launch
No manual entry for upstart-app-launch
See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.

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 ~/Canonical/X/mesa  ± master  upstart-app-launch --help

** (process:7873): WARNING **: Unable to find keyfile for application '--help'

(Furthermore, this results in an apport popup, indicating that upstart-app-launch has crashed)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: upstart-app-launch 0.3+14.04.20140321-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-19.40-generic 3.13.6
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Mar 28 14:33:32 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-08-06 (233 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
SourcePackage: upstart-app-launch
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2013-08-06 (233 days ago)

Revision history for this message
Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote :
Ted Gould (ted)
summary: - upstart-app-launch is hilariously undocumented
+ Command line utilities need man pages
Changed in upstart-app-launch (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in upstart-app-launch:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
Ted Gould (ted)
Changed in upstart-app-launch:
importance: Medium → Low
Changed in upstart-app-launch (Ubuntu):
importance: Medium → Low
Martin Pitt (pitti)
affects: upstart-app-launch (Ubuntu) → ubuntu-app-launch (Ubuntu)
dobey (dobey)
summary: - Command line utilities need man pages
+ Command line utilities do not have man pages
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