On 2008-01-17 14:56:09 +1100, Jason Thomas wrote: > This is how upstream do it so we will stick with this.
I agree. However the change would be a good suggestion to upstream (if tidy is still maintained). But I saw a discussion where some developers said that under Debian, every command should support --help. > Unless there is a documented standard somewhere that I can put to > upstream. AFAIK, this is completely out of the scope of POSIX, which only defines short options. However this is a well-known convention, and most utilities follow it (even lynx, which has only long options, thus one or two dashes can be used, so that tidy is the only exception I know). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
