Bug 4906

Summary:	iconv man page is incomplete.
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Richard Neill <mageia>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Thomas Backlund <tmb>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Normal	CC:	dan, mageia
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	glibc-2.14.1-5.mga2	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	The man page from Debian.

Description Richard Neill 2012-03-12 16:54:03 CET

The man page for iconv is out of date, and does not describe all the features.
Ubuntu 10.4 has a more recent one.

Richard Neill 2012-03-12 16:54:28 CET

Severity: normal => minor

Comment 1 Richard Neill 2012-03-12 16:58:50 CET

Created attachment 1736 [details]
The man page from Debian.

This more fully describes the program, notably including the ability to transliterate, and to skip invalid characters.

Manuel Hiebel 2012-03-12 18:01:33 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => tmb

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2012-05-26 13:03:29 CEST

Hi,

This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment.

Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2.

Thanks :)

Cheers,
marja

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 3 Richard Neill 2012-05-26 21:28:13 CEST

Yes, still valid in Mageia 2.

Sander Lepik 2012-05-26 21:44:28 CEST

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
CC: (none) => sander.lepik

Comment 4 Dan Fandrich 2013-07-23 00:07:04 CEST

The iconv man page in Mageia 3 is now the POSIX version of the man page. It still doesn't mention //TRANSLIT or //IGNORE or document the -o option, but it's a big improvement over what's in Mageia 2.

CC: (none) => dan

Comment 5 Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-17 21:09:10 CEST

(In reply to Dan Fandrich from comment #4)
> The iconv man page in Mageia 3 is now the POSIX version of the man page. It
> still doesn't mention //TRANSLIT or //IGNORE or document the -o option, but
> it's a big improvement over what's in Mageia 2.

Can we close the bug, or do you wish to keep it open so that we have a better man-page? (in which case it would be good to have it updated upstream first, if possible)

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 6 Dan Fandrich 2015-05-17 21:27:03 CEST

A better man page would be nice, but we don't have the resources to improve the quality of all the man pages we distribute; it should be the responsibility of upstream. Having said, that looking at http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/iconv.1.html shows that upstream has fixed the issue in their 4.00 release; unfortunately, we're only shipping man-pages-3.82 in Cauldron.

Comment 7 Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-17 21:38:01 CEST

Closing as fixed, please open a bug report for an update of the man-pages package in cauldron. This will be easier to follow.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED