Bug#972741: help2man: version-string too restrictive, needs to allow empty version

2022-01-05 Thread Drew Parsons
Package: help2man Version: 1.48.5 Followup-For: Bug #972741 The version-string handling is still too restrictive. It's strange to assume that if there is no --version argument then then the help output can't be used at all. Plenty of programs are in that situation. help2man's output is still fin

Bug#972741: help2man: version-string too restrictive, needs to allow empty version

2020-11-29 Thread Brendan O'Dea
severity 972741 wishlist thanks On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 11:29:28AM +0800, Drew Parsons wrote: >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

Bug#972741: help2man: version-string too restrictive, needs to allow empty version

2020-10-22 Thread Drew Parsons
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