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<contrib>Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.</contrib>
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<email>&dhemail;</email>
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<copyright>
<year>2007</year>
<holder>&dhusername;</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
<para>This manual page was written for the Debian system
(and may be used by others).</para>
<para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
Version 2 or (at your option) any later version published by
the Free Software Foundation.</para>
<para>On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
License can be found in
<filename>/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL</filename>.</para>
</legalnotice>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>&dhucpackage;</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>&dhsection;</manvolnum>
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<refnamediv>
<refname>&dhpackage;</refname>
<refpurpose>program to do something</refpurpose>
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<command>&dhpackage;</command>
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<arg choice="plain"><replaceable>that</replaceable></arg>
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<cmdsynopsis>
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<arg choice="plain">
<group choice="req">
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<arg choice="plain"><option>--help</option></arg>
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<group choice="req">
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<refsect1 id="description">
<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
<para>This manual page documents briefly the
<command>&dhpackage;</command> and <command>bar</command>
commands.</para>
<para>This manual page was written for the Debian distribution
because the original program does not have a manual page.
Instead, it has documentation in the GNU <citerefentry>
<refentrytitle>info</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
</citerefentry> format; see below.</para>
<para><command>&dhpackage;</command> is a program that...</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="options">
<title>OPTIONS</title>
<para>The program follows the usual GNU command line syntax,
with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of
options is included below. For a complete description, see the
<citerefentry>
<refentrytitle>info</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
</citerefentry> files.</para>
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<term><option>--example=<replaceable>that</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Does this and that.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-h</option></term>
<term><option>--help</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Show summary of options.</para>
</listitem>
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<varlistentry>
<term><option>-v</option></term>
<term><option>--version</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Show version of program.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="files">
<title>FILES</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><filename>/etc/foo.conf</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>The system-wide configuration file to control the
behaviour of <application>&dhpackage;</application>. See
<citerefentry>
<refentrytitle>foo.conf</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
</citerefentry> for further details.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><filename>${HOME}/.foo.conf</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>The per-user configuration file to control the
behaviour of <application>&dhpackage;</application>. See
<citerefentry>
<refentrytitle>foo.conf</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
</citerefentry> for further details.</para>
</listitem>
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</variablelist>
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<refsect1 id="environment">
<title>ENVIONMENT</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><envar>FOO_CONF</envar></term>
<listitem>
<para>If used, the defined file is used as configuration
file (see also <xref linkend="files"/>).</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="diagnostics">
<title>DIAGNOSTICS</title>
<para>The following diagnostics may be issued
on <filename class="devicefile">stderr</filename>:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><errortext>Bad configuration file. Exiting.</errortext></term>
<listitem>
<para>The configuration file seems to contain a broken configuration
line. Use the <option>--verbose</option> option, to get more info.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para><command>&dhpackage;</command> provides some return codes, that can
be used in scripts:</para>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Code</segtitle>
<segtitle>Diagnostic</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg><errorcode>0</errorcode></seg>
<seg>Program exited successfully.</seg>
</seglistitem>
<seglistitem>
<seg><errorcode>1</errorcode></seg>
<seg>The configuration file seems to be broken.</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="bugs">
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<title>BUGS</title>
<para>The program is currently limited to only work
with the <package>foobar</package> library.</para>
<para>The upstreams <acronym>BTS</acronym> can be found
at <ulink url="http://bugzilla.foo.tld"/>.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="see_also">
<title>SEE ALSO</title>
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<para><citerefentry>
<refentrytitle>bar</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
</citerefentry>, <citerefentry>
<refentrytitle>baz</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
</citerefentry>, <citerefentry>
<refentrytitle>foo.conf</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
</citerefentry></para>
<para>The programs are documented fully by <citetitle>The Rise and
Fall of a Fooish Bar</citetitle> available via the <citerefentry>
<refentrytitle>info</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
</citerefentry> system.</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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