-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 3/20/2014 1:22 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > there's no standard saying that how --version should be handled, > and thus this case is handled differently by every tool, there are > many that return 0 but there as many that return 1.
The standard says that !0 means there was an error, regardless of what options you gave. I can not find one single other tool ( and I've just checked over 50 ) that returns a failure code when printing its version. > if you want to change the world, please do that in a coordinated > way in all of debian. there is no point in opening one bug against > one package requesting it to be changed when there's no clear > consensus first. This is the /only/ package I can find that doesn't conform to the standard consensus. > should i be wrong and there's an existing standard (i checked sus > and gnu standards, but they don't cover it) for the --version or > --help case, let me know, otherwise i'm going to close the bug. Your search is too narrow. The standard is simply whether or not an error or failure occurred, regardless of whether you are asking for - --version or not. Since no error or failure has occurred, returning a failure status that breaks calling scripts is the wrong thing to do. > which is why all portable shell scripts have to use 'true' in that > case, no news there. No, throwing an || true in there would mask any *real* errors. The test suite script I was working on when I found this bug was actually calling mkfs.* -V to test whether the corresponding utility is installed and executable so that it can skip that filesystem if the tools are missing. NTFS was the only filesystem that incorrectly mislead the script into thinking it was not installed. > -done and close are equivalent. please don't try to press your > preferences upon others, it's annoying. No, they are not. See https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#close. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTKy95AAoJEI5FoCIzSKrwlIQH/RBsVMqE1MJL3TYvMKph8Bu0 4+olTKJQaDQnHKezkxR9Wkz6RYRNP02XzsDTpDYZW6dUX7DCUJMoyAtv/mynxsEb H6hDkM8RYjzp2C+NiD+Fm1iVdfONeeiF066Q7T6KnupEnwh2GDvz8MpwZt/LSgt4 Yi4/Vr7nr9+U5TwmXgNgx8vZuJBcJgW7SbogTjV0nP836uRog/I8VFZQlZObi7Xs 2ZdKZtQxeAVdhgB09ocXwc2stnNrdX6QiLvvX5qsvEjAvpwNLN8/htAB7UtrxVVw 2OAbDFXePbzIiOaz+ENYcuKnxCRcoK4fV5R1UjICd+raVODQMMRLytLtBo7ahGA= =bp2b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
