Re: sharutils 4.7: compress-dummy.1 is empty

[Bruce Korb]

Bruce Korb wrote:
> Hi Santiago,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Santiago Vila<address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> The file doc/compress-dummy.1 in sharutils 4.7 is empty.

$ find ../sharutils-bld/ -name '*.1'
../sharutils-bld/doc/uuencode.1
../sharutils-bld/doc/shar.1
../sharutils-bld/doc/unshar.1

I "find" that it doesn't exist at all.
Why would you even want a man page for something so vacuous?
It is even misnamed.  Were it a real program, a better
name would be "uncompress-dummy" anyway.  It devolves to:
   gzip -d
and errors out if the command line has anything other
than just the "-d".

Here are the first few lines of compress-dummy.in:
> #! @SH@
> # compress dummy script for uncompressing legacy shar files.
> # Copyright (C) 2002, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> # Karl Eichwalder <address@hidden>, 2002.



>> BTW: Are there any progress on these old bugs?:
>>
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=324785
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411261

> I'll look into these over labor day weekend.

Cheers - Bruce