Package: aspell
Version: 0.60.2+20050121-2
Severity: minor
Between CVS r1.74 and r1.75 of prog/aspell.cpp the meaning of -l changed
from list to --lang. This change broke a script I was using when I upgraded
from aspell 0.50* to aspell6. Debugging the problem took a while because
I saw 'You must specify a parameter for "-l"' and added a --lang
parameter to -l.
I think changing the meaning of a parameter to something totally
different should have at least been mentioned in changelog.Debian.gz or
changelog.gz but the only "documentation" I can find for the change is
bug #301026.
I've attached a patch which outputs a more helpful error if one uses -l
without a parameter.
In handsight I should have seen and been clued in by a 'You must specify
an action' message from aspell but I did not see it.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages aspell depends on:
ii aspell-bin 0.60.2+20050121-2 GNU Aspell standalone spell-check
ii aspell-en [aspell6-dic 6.0-0-3 English dictionary for GNU Aspell
-- no debconf information
*** aspell-warn-about-l.patch
--- aspell-0.60.2+20050121/prog/aspell.cpp 2004-12-13 13:20:09.000000000
-0800
+++ aspell-0.60.2+20050121.mine/prog/aspell.cpp 2005-05-26 14:16:04.000000000
-0700
@@ -322,6 +322,9 @@
i += 1;
} else {
print_error(_("You must specify a parameter for \"%s\"."), argv[i]);
+ if (argv[i][0] == '-' && argv[i][1] == 'l' && argv[i][2] == '\0') {
+ print_error(_("The meaning of -l changed in aspell 0.60. Use the
list command to get the behavior of -l in aspell 0.50.5."));
+ }
return 1;
}
} else {
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