3 (out of 46) man pages missing

[jidanni]

Feature description

$ dlocate --man gdal-bin|sed s/..// > m
$ dlocate --lsbin gdal-bin | sed 's!.*/!!;s!\.py$!!;' > b
$ wc -l b m | sed \$d
  46 b
  43 m
$ comm -3 b m
gdal2xyz
gdalattachpct
gdalenhance

Additional context

apropos(1) users: you are "not playing with a full deck"!

[jidanni]

I'm not sure of the fate of the other 43 man pages after https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/index.html#gdal-application is implemented, but this bug should still be fixed, even if only "for old times' sake". (And apropos(1) users, who can't find the three programs. So assume they aren't installed.)

[jratike80]

As a Windows user I have no idea about man pages, but maybe they are something that Linux users are learned to use. Do they really check with man gdal2xyz if the utility exists, without ever trying gdal2xyz or gdal2xyz.py?

[jidanni]

We do in Linux

$ apropos xyz
xyz: nothing appropriate.

to see if that ...xyz... command that we sort of remember using is installed.

Oh well, I guess it isn't installed. It must have been part of the GRASS package or something. Oh well.

We do one final guess:

$ gdal_<TAB>

Nope. Yes we should have tried

$ gdal<TAB>

or did

$ ls /usr/bin|grep xyz

but that is getting extreme.

[rouault]

closing. we won't invest in those historical utilities