Debian Bug report logs - #610147
devscripts: [dcmd] --no prefix slightly misleading

Package: devscripts; Maintainer for devscripts is Devscripts Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for devscripts is src:devscripts (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Philipp Kern <[email protected]>

Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 17:15:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version devscripts/2.10.69

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Package: devscripts
Version: 2.10.69
Severity: minor

dcmd's manpage tells me this:

| Each option may be prefixed by --no to  indicate  that  all  files  not
| matching the specification should be selected.

So one might assume that --nochanges is actually valid, whereas it isn't.
Instead it wants --no-changes.  Furthermore each option is already listed
with a double dash prefix.

I'm not sure if it should just be "Each option may be prefixed by `no-'"
instead.

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Debian Bug report logs - #610147 devscripts: [dcmd] --no prefix slightly misleading

Debian Bug report logs - #610147
devscripts: [dcmd] --no prefix slightly misleading