tag 577843 - wontfix retitle 577843 dpkg-dev: Add --long option counterparts to perl scripts thanks
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 09:26:00 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, Jari Aalto wrote: > > Please add support for --long style options. > > > > These options can help in writing readable shell scripts and > > debian/rules files by not having to consult the manpages in many > > occasions. > If we ever do something, it's something like using Getopt::Long for _all_ > the existing scripts but I'm not sure we can support all the current > oddities with such an option parsing library. I don't see how this is a prerequisite. > In the mean time, this is not something that I'm going to do and I prefer > to not have this bug clutter my view of other stuff that I'm more likely > to implement. > > Don't take this as a personal offense, it's not. It's just that I could > file hundreds of similar "wishlists" by myself and it wouldn't help at > all. We need people to tackle such projects and not people to remind us of > what we can improve. :-) These do not make sense, either the request is valid, or it's not. Because it is, I'm removing the wontfix. guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
