This turns out to be a typo in the dpkg-buildpackage usage() call. Fixed in CVS for dpkg-cross 1.39.
Index: dpkg-buildpackage
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RCS file: /cvsroot/dpkg-cross/dpkg-cross/dpkg-buildpackage,v
retrieving revision 1.17
diff -p -u -b -B -r1.17 dpkg-buildpackage
--- dpkg-buildpackage 24 Jul 2006 13:10:42 -0000 1.17
+++ dpkg-buildpackage 5 Jul 2007 20:31:08 -0000
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
#
-# $Id: dpkg-buildpackage,v 1.17 2006-07-24 13:10:42 yoush Exp $
+# $Id: dpkg-buildpackage,v 1.17 2006/07/24 13:10:42 yoush Exp $
require "dpkg-cross.pl";
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ $signcommand = (-e "$ENV{'HOME'}/.gnupg/
# Scan arguments for the ones we're interested in.
$do_setup = 0;
foreach $arg ( @ARGV ) {
- usage() if $arg =~ /^-h/;
+ usage() if ($arg =~ /^-h|--help/);
if ($arg =~ /^-a/) {
$arch = $';
$do_setup = 1;
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ sub usage {
# print original message
system "dpkg-buildpackage.orig -h";
# and our comments...
- print STDERR <<'EOF';
+ print STDERR <<EOF;
--
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