Package: findutils
Version: 4.2.28-1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/locate

locate produces the following:
Usage: locate [-d path | --database=path] [-e | -E | --[non-]existing]
      [-i | --ignore-case] [-w | --wholename] [-b | --basename] 
      [--limit=N | -l N] [-S | --statistics] [-0 | --null] [-c | --count]
      [-P | -H | --nofollow] [-L | --follow] [-m | --mmap ] [ -s | --stdio ]
      [-A | --all] [-p | --print] [-r | --regex ] [--regextype=TYPE]
      [-version] [--help]
      pattern...

Report bugs to <bug-findutils@gnu.org>.

Yet if you run locate -version, it tries to break it up into short
options, and barfs on the 'v'.

locate --version works correctly:
GNU locate version 4.2.28

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages findutils depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries

findutils recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
Paul "TBBle" Hampson, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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