Hi! On Thu, 2014-10-23 at 19:49:20 -0500, Rob Browning wrote: > Package: dpkg-dev > Version: 1.17.13 > > $ man dpkg-parsechangelog | grep -F -- -S > -S, --show-field field > $ dpkg-parsechangelog --help | grep -F -- -S > -S, --show-field <field> show the values for <field>. > $ dpkg-parsechangelog -S Version > dpkg-parsechangelog: unknown option `-S' > Use --help for program usage information.
The current options parsing in the perl scripts (dpkg-dev) is pretty much suboptimal, that's something I'm going to be unifying and improving during the 1.18.x cycle. In this case the option needs the value bundled as in -SVersion for example; --show-field=Version or --show-field Version also work. But I agree the --help and man pages are confusing, so I'll be adding support for "-S Version" style arguments in 1.17.21, instead of having to change the --help and man pages that would add more translator work. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
