• Bug#265338: nget: Man page doesn't mention that no full path is allowed

    From Volker Wysk@1:229/2 to All on Thu Aug 12 21:00:14 2004
    From: [email protected]

    Package: nget
    Version: 0.27-1
    Severity: minor

    Hello.

    There is a documentation bug in nget. The man page says about the --text option:

    --text ignore,files,mbox[:filename]
    ... The name of the mbox file to
    save in can be specified with mbox:filename, the default is nget.mbox. ...

    When the "filename" is an absolute path, then the operation will fail. Inspecting the source code revealed that no directory part is allowed in
    "filename". It must be a pure basename. The file will then end up in the same directory as the downloaded binaries. The documentation should state
    that.


    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: 3.0
    APT prefers unstable
    APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
    Architecture: i386 (i686)
    Kernel: Linux 2.6.6
    Locale: LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-1

    Versions of packages nget depends on:
    ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.4.1-5 GCC support library
    ii libncurses5 5.4-3 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpopt0 1.7-2 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
    ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-3 compression library - runtime

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