[Bug 1989579] [NEW] Incorrect pbget/pbput/pbputs(1) manual page

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That manual page says (at the end of the"DESCRIPTION" section):

    In any case the uploaded/downloaded data is optionally tar(1) archived, always
    lzma(1) compressed, optionally gpg(1) encrypted, and always base64(1) encoded.
    http://pastebin.com is used by default.

NO. Both pbput & pbputs are hardwired to use paste.ubuntu.com (for which
pastebinit(1) appears to be configured to uses HTTPS, not HTTP), and an
alternative site cannot be specified (from manual inspection of the
/usr/bin/pbput script).  An alternative site URL can only be specified
with pbget.

All of the examples in the "EXAMPLES" section use the default, which is
incorrectly shown as pastebin.com

In addition, but not mentioned in the manual page, both pbput & pbputs
have the very surprising behaviour (again, from script inspection) that
when given one argument, which is not readable (and not empty), it is
assumed to be a GPG_USER (for gpg encryption).  Hence, a typo (e.g.) in
the intended FILENAME is going to do something very strange:  Both will
read stdin, albeit only pbputs will then (try to) encrypt.  There is no
warning or error message per se (except, I presume, for pbputs when
there is no such GPG_USER (from gpg)?).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: pastebinit 1.5.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-47.51-generic 5.15.46
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-47-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Wed Sep 14 12:04:55 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-10-19 (694 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: pastebinit
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-09-04 (9 days ago)

** Affects: pastebinit (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Low
         Status: Triaged


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bitesize jammy manpage
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Incorrect pbget/pbput/pbputs(1) manual page
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1989579
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