Package: libbobcat1
Version: 1.17.1-1
Severity: normal
File: bobcat

The current getopt(3) function manual page shows a different `return value'
section than peviously published getopt(3) man-pages. In particular it shows:

    ... If getopt() encounters an option with a missing argument, then the
    return value depends on the first charac- ter in optstring: if it is ':',
    then ':' is returned; otherwise '?' is returned.

Bobcat 1.17.1 is based on the `old' manpage info (and will therefore
erroneously report an undefined option character where it should report a
missing option value), the upcoming new version (1.17.2) will implement a
check for the first character of the option string, making sure that the
initial character of the option string is always a ':'.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21.1 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libbobcat1 depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.7-6            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.3-20080116-1 GCC support library

libbobcat1 recommends no packages.

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