tag 577843 + wontfix Hi,
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. While in theory I agree with this, there's no way we're going to implement this currently: - changing dpkg-genchanges only doesn't make sense - most options dpkg-genchanges has are also shared by dpkg-buildpackage so both should be modified together 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. 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. :-) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Like what I do? Sponsor me: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/05/5-years-of-freexian/ My Debian goals: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/09/debian-related-goals-for-2010/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
