Hi Guido,
> > Having empathy for users who are not blessed with the minutiae of a
> > project is really essential in providing a good user experience ;)
>
> …so is having empathy with maintainers that can't guess what a user has
> already tried and why he/she didn't find the right spot.
Heh, my comment was definitely not meant as a rebuke; far more for
anyone following along! In this instance I also didn't want to bore
you with the story and — at the time — I was under the impression it
was "just" that the previously suggested change was required.
> I'm happy about a patch for this. As I wrote it's already explaind at
> the bottom of the manpage how fetching stuff works but I'm happy to have
> --download redirect there.
Something like the attached?
Regards,
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diff --git a/gbp/scripts/import_dsc.py b/gbp/scripts/import_dsc.py
index 01278b4..8cd22c0 100644
--- a/gbp/scripts/import_dsc.py
+++ b/gbp/scripts/import_dsc.py
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ def build_parser(name):
parser.add_config_file_option(option_name="repo-email", dest="repo_email",
choices=['DEBIAN', 'GIT'])
parser.add_option("--download", dest='download', action="store_true",
- default=False, help="Ignored. Accepted for
compatibility.")
+ default=False, help="Ignored. Accepted for
compatibility; see EXAMPLES in gbp-import-dsc(1).")
return parser
diff --git a/gbp/scripts/import_orig.py b/gbp/scripts/import_orig.py
index ad543e6..1bb8360 100644
--- a/gbp/scripts/import_orig.py
+++ b/gbp/scripts/import_orig.py
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ def build_parser(name):
# Accepted for compatibility
parser.add_option("--download", dest='download', action="store_true",
- default=False, help="Ignored. Accepted for
compatibility.")
+ default=False, help="Ignored. Accepted for
compatibility; see EXAMPLES in gbp-import-dsc(1).")
return parser
