Hello,

The man page included with the fabric package is apparently not a part
of upstream, so thanks for writing that up!

 From what I can see though, it currently lists a bunch of options
related to running tasks in parallel which has been competely removed
from the 2.x branch.

 From what I could find, the man page was already sent upstream for
inclusion but it got 0 feedback in 4 years, so the PR was closed:

https://github.com/fabric/fabric/issues/35

So we would either be up for a refresh of the text for that man page or
keeping with the above PR dropping it entirely. The current text is
confusing since it's referring to options that are not there anymore and
is probably lacking some others that were added in 2.x

Cheers!

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
fabric, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1111032@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Alexandre Detiste <tchet@debian.org> (supplier of updated fabric package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 09:03:46 +0200
Source: fabric
Architecture: source
Version: 2.6.0-6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Python Team <team+python@tracker.debian.org>
Changed-By: Alexandre Detiste <tchet@debian.org>
Closes: 1111032
Changes:
 fabric (2.6.0-6) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Regenerate the 10 years old manpage (Closes: #1111032)
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