Bug 854574 - lynx - Inconsistency between man page and help
Summary: lynx - Inconsistency between man page and help
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: lynx
Version: 18
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kamil Dudka
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-09-05 11:05 UTC by Filip Holec
Modified: 2016-04-18 10:21 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: lynx-2.8.7-11.fc18
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-12-22 09:58:30 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Filip Holec 2012-09-05 11:05:39 UTC
Description of problem:
These options are in man, but not in help:
* -blink
* -color
* -exec
* -fileversions
* -find_leaks
* -locexec
* -nested_tables
* -noexec
* -nosocks
* -session
* -sessionin
* -sessionout
* -syslog=text
* -syslog-urls
* -timeout=N
* -wdebug

In man, option -bibp is the same as the option -bibhost in help (different names)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
lynx-2.8.7-9.fc18.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Check man page
2. Check --help option
  
Actual results:
Inconsistent man page/help

Expected results:
Consistent man page/help

Additional info:

Comment 1 Kamil Dudka 2012-09-05 11:47:56 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> These options are in man, but not in help:
> * -blink
> * -color
> * -exec
> * -fileversions
> * -find_leaks
> * -locexec
> * -nested_tables
> * -noexec
> * -nosocks
> * -session
> * -sessionin
> * -sessionout
> * -syslog=text
> * -syslog-urls
> * -timeout=N
> * -wdebug

All the options above are omitted intentionally since lynx --help lists only the options that are compiled in whereas the man page documents everything.  This is expected behavior.

> In man, option -bibp is the same as the option -bibhost in help (different
> names)

Good point.  Only the -bibhost option works despite the documentation mentions only -bibp.  I am not sure which of them is correct.  The problem still exists in the latest upstream version.  We need to contact the upstream maintainer.

Comment 2 Kamil Dudka 2012-09-07 12:07:23 UTC
fixed in lynx-2.8.7-11.fc18

Comment 3 Fedora End Of Life 2013-12-21 15:41:26 UTC
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Comment 4 Kamil Dudka 2013-12-22 09:58:30 UTC
lynx-2.8.7-11.fc18 has never been submitted as an update because I did not find the man page fix itself important enough to bother users with update, but it is now fixed in lynx-2.8.8-0.1.dev15.fc19.  Closing NEXTRELEASE...


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