Package: help2man Version: 1.47.16 Severity: normal help2man is too restrictive with regards to the version string. Often a program does not support the --version flag at all, but help2man does not handle that tidily. The only way you can manage that is to set --version-string explicitly.
Other times you simply might not want to use the version string even if it is available. But you can't set help2man --version-string="" An empty string gives an error: Option version-string requires an argument So the version string handling is too restrictive. A better default (in my opinion) is to use an empty version string if the command does not provide one, and to make it possible to set --version-string="" -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages help2man depends on: ii dpkg 1.20.5 ii install-info 6.7.0.dfsg.2-5 ii libc6 2.31-4 ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-4 ii perl 5.30.3-4 help2man recommends no packages. help2man suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
