#1113773 putty-doc package provides unsuitable documents

Package:
putty-doc
Source:
putty-doc
Submitter:
Denis Dordoigne
Date:
2026-08-20 16:49:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1113773#5
Date:
2025-09-02 12:18:30 UTC
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To:
Some options mentioned in the documention does not work : it is not an issue, the index page starts with "Note to Unix users: this manual currently primarily documents the Windows versions of the PuTTY utilities. Some options are therefore mentioned that are absent from the Unix version; the Unix version has features not described here; and the pterm and command-line puttygen and pageant utilities are not described at all. The only Unix-specific documentation that currently exists is the man pages".

The documentation is useless and deceptive, so could you please remove this package ?

Thanks,

#1113773#10
Date:
2025-09-02 13:36:42 UTC
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To:
It's hardly as bad as you describe.  Yes, the documentation says that
the only Unix-_specific_ documentation is the manual pages; but much of
PuTTY's functionality is common across platforms, and so the
documentation is far from useless even if it doesn't always go into
Unix-specific features.