Man page is out of date #1040

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   gmaxwell commented at 0:16 am on April 5, 2012: contributor

   We have a manpage in ./contrib/debian/manpages/bitcoind.1 (surprise!), but it’s very out of date.
2. ghost assigned gmaxwell on Apr 5, 2012
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   laanwj commented at 5:46 am on April 5, 2012: member

   This is one of the things that will be eternally out of date, and as long as its under contrib/debian it is not up to us to maintain it.

   Debian probably has a newer one though, see: https://launchpad.net/debian/+source/bitcoin/+changelog

   • Extend Files section for debian-provided manpages to cover upstream shipped duplicate below contrib/debian.

   It could be that it had to be relicensed from GPLv3 last time.

4. 
   laanwj commented at 9:10 am on May 18, 2015: member

   I still think the manpages should become a first-class part of the repository and also installed on ‘make install’, instead of inside the contrib/debian/ ‘ghetto’.

   It is possible to generate part of it automatically from --help output.

   Also it probably shouldn’t aim to list all the RPC commands, as there are too many of them. Also as bitcoind doesn’t work as a RPC client anymore in the first place… (this was done in #7274)

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   laanwj commented at 4:35 pm on March 1, 2016: member

   Closing this as #7274 bumped the man page and removed the outdated information.
6. laanwj unassigned gmaxwell on Mar 1, 2016
7. laanwj closed this on Mar 1, 2016

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