Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> writes: > 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.
Of course -- and now that you remind me -- I've actually used -SVersion before, I just forgot about the variation. > 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. Sounds good, and thanks. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2011-07-10 E6A9 DA3C C9FD 1FF8 C676 D2C4 C0F0 39E9 ED1B 597A GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
