Bug 292725

Summary: the command kshell4 is incompatible with help2man
Product: [Unmaintained] kdelibs Reporter: Christopher Yeleighton <giecrilj>
Component: kdeinitAssignee: kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: minor    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 4.10.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Bug Blocks: 463698    
Attachments: add --help to kwrapper4 and friends
adds --help to kwrapper4 and friends

Description Christopher Yeleighton 2012-01-28 21:39:01 UTC
Version:           4.7 (using KDE 4.7.2) 
OS:                Linux

help2man requires the command to produce help text given an option (default --help, but any option will do); kshell4 is incompatible with this convention.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
  1. { man kshell4; }
  2. { kshell4 --help; }

Actual Results:  
  1. Documentation not found.
  2. KInit could not launch '--help'.

Expected Results:  
  2. 
kshell4 --- KDE command launcher
Usage: kshell4 $command [$arguments ...]
Tells the KDE subsystem to launch the given command.

Workaround: { kshell4; }, incompatible with help2man
Comment 1 Christopher Yeleighton 2012-01-28 21:46:09 UTC
Same problem with kwrapper4
Comment 2 Christopher Yeleighton 2013-09-07 09:30:52 UTC
Created attachment 82203 [details]
add --help to kwrapper4 and friends
Comment 3 Christopher Yeleighton 2013-09-07 11:16:05 UTC
Created attachment 82205 [details]
adds --help to kwrapper4 and friends
Comment 4 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-10 03:11:57 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? I am setting the status to NEEDSINFO pending your response, please change the Status back to REPORTED when you respond.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 5 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-20 04:03:00 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

This is a reminder that this bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? This bug will be moved back to REPORTED Status for manual review later, which may take a while. If you are able to, please lend us a hand.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 6 Justin Zobel 2023-01-01 04:19:56 UTC
Thank you for reporting this issue in KDE software. As it has been a while since this issue was reported, can we please ask you to see if you can reproduce the issue with a recent software version?

If you can reproduce the issue, please change the status to "REPORTED" when replying. Thank you!