Package: apt-file
Version: 2.5.1
Severity: minor
Hi,
(note to self?)
So far I noticed two issues; first the manpage suggests the "file"
argument with -f is optional:
"""
apt-file -f [ options ] search [ file ... ]
"""
But omitting a file does not have a sane default; it appears to simply
give a "match nothing" pattern.
"""
$ echo lintian/checks/debian | apt-file -f search
$ echo lintian/checks/debian | apt-file -f search -
lintian: /usr/share/lintian/checks/debian-readme
lintian: /usr/share/lintian/checks/debian-readme.desc
lintian: /usr/share/lintian/checks/debian-source-dir
lintian: /usr/share/lintian/checks/debian-source-dir.desc
"""
Secondly, the extend description of -f suggests the file argument
should come immediately after "-f"[1]. In fact, the file argument must
always come after the (search) action (as the synopsis reads). So anyone
skipping the synopsis are likely to get this wrong.
~Niels
[1]
"""
-f, --from-file
[...] Use -f - for stdin. [...]
^^^^
"""
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