Debian Bug report logs - #763708
apt man page should show all action arguments too

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Package: apt; Maintainer for apt is APT Development Team <[email protected]>; Source for apt is src:apt (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email protected]>

Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 23:45:07 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version apt/1.1~exp3

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Bug#763708; Package apt. (Wed, 01 Oct 2014 23:45:13 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: apt man page should show all action arguments too
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 07:25:44 +0800
Package: apt
Version: 1.1~exp3
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man8/apt.8.gz

Please make

       list
           list is used to display a list of packages. It supports shell
           pattern for matching package names and the following options:
           --installed, --upgradable, --all-versions are supported.

Say

       list [pattern]
           list is used to display a list of packages. It supports shell
           pattern for matching package names and the following options:
           --installed, --upgradable, --all-versions are supported.

and same with the rest, like the dpkg man page already does.
Also make sure apt --help shows all the arguments too.

Yes I know they are already there in the SYNOPSIS.

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