Bug#1124810: marked as done (apt: rred lacks a manual page despite being an installed executable)

David Kalnischkies <[email protected]> Fri, 9 Jan 2026 10:15:34 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.apt.devel
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> In addition to being able to be run as a method during
> downloading, rred can be run as a standalone program
> for debugging purposes. This is not a supported tool,
> but just a fact of life.

While I am not disagreeing with the overall reasoning that a man page
for rred is overkill, I have to note that it is used by `dak` to reuse
the patch-merging code – so it has external uses that are supported
in an eternal "this is here temporarily only, until a better place to
share this code appears" way.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies

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