Bug 483005 - man page for pamditherbw talks about unsupported option
Summary: man page for pamditherbw talks about unsupported option
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: netpbm
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Jindrich Novy
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-01-29 09:47 UTC by Milos Malik
Modified: 2013-07-02 23:34 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-04-14 07:05:38 UTC
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Description Milos Malik 2009-01-29 09:47:47 UTC 
Description of problem:
One of the command line options described in the man page is not recognized.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
netpbm-progs-10.35.54-1.fc10

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
$ man pamditherbw | col -b | grep -A 3 SYNOPSIS
SYNOPSIS
       pamditherbw

       [-floyd	|  -fs	| -atkinson | -threshold | -hilbert | -dither8 | -d8 |
$ pamditherbw -atkinson
unrecognized option `-atkinson'
$ pamditherbw --atkinson
unrecognized option `--atkinson'


Actual results:
1 unsupported option

Expected results:
corrected man page or pamditherbw recognizes -atkinson

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jindrich Novy 2009-04-14 07:05:38 UTC 
Please have a look into the HISTORY section of the man page:

-atkinson was new in Netpbm 10.38 (March 2007).

We use the stable netpbm branch (10.35) to which the option is not yet backported.
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