Bug 1132227 - 'man java' doesn't mention -classpath
Summary: 'man java' doesn't mention -classpath
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: java-1.8.0-openjdk
Version: 26
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Elliott Baron
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-08-20 23:50 UTC by Christopher Tubbs
Modified: 2018-05-29 23:03 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2018-05-29 12:03:21 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Christopher Tubbs 2014-08-20 23:50:45 UTC
Description of problem:
java man page does not mention -classpath option

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-1.8.0.11-18.b12.fc21.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. man java
2. read

Actual results:
No mention of -classpath

Expected results:
I'd expect -classpath, -cp to be mentioned in the Standard Options section.

Additional info:
'java -help' does mention -classpath option, but I haven't checked that the man page documents the rest of the options listed in 'java -help' output (or vice versa).

Comment 1 Omair Majid 2014-08-21 13:08:41 UTC
This appears to be a regression.

Compare:
- http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/tools/solaris/java.html
- http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/tools/unix/java.html

The first one has -classpath and -cp while the second one doesn't. AFAIK, the man pages are generated from some master document along the lines of what's published above.

Comment 2 Fedora End Of Life 2015-11-04 15:14:33 UTC
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Comment 3 Christopher Tubbs 2015-11-04 17:33:42 UTC
Still applies to f22 java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-1.8.0.65-3.b17.fc22.x86_64

Comment 4 Omair Majid 2016-03-10 16:32:09 UTC
Upstream claims the bug is now fixed in 9. It's not in the JDK 9 source repository yet; docs get synced to code repo in batches.

Comment 5 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 12:02:51 UTC
Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
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Comment 6 Omair Majid 2016-07-19 14:05:27 UTC
Still present in F24 with java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.92-5.b14.fc24.x86_64

Comment 7 Fedora End Of Life 2017-07-25 18:42:12 UTC
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Comment 8 Christopher Tubbs 2017-07-25 18:55:46 UTC
Still present in F26. In spite of probably being the most important thing to document in Java's man page, it looks like this one's going to be persistently absent for the long haul.

Comment 9 Fedora End Of Life 2018-05-03 08:53:57 UTC
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of '26'.

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version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above.

Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's
lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a
more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes
bugs or makes them obsolete.

Comment 10 Fedora End Of Life 2018-05-29 12:03:21 UTC
Fedora 26 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2018-05-29. Fedora 26
is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any
further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you
are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the
current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this
bug.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

Comment 11 jiri vanek 2018-05-29 12:12:21 UTC
HEllo!

I'm sorry to see this eoled, but let it be. The man pages are nearly impossible to get fixedupstream.  As for in-rpm patch,  there is already to much patches.  Sorry which must be in. Although this is nasty, will not get fixed.

Comment 12 Christopher Tubbs 2018-05-29 23:03:45 UTC
Looks like this was fixed in Java 9: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8141575


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