Hi!
On Mon, 2015-01-26 at 11:42:33 +0000, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Package: dpkg-dev
> Version: 1.17.23
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
>
> Please clarify in the docs that a space is not valid in calls to
> "-SField". For example, this is valid:
>
> $ dpkg-parsechangelog --show-field Field
>
> .. but this isn't:
>
> $ dpkg-parsechangelog -S Field
It works for me:
$ dpkg-parsechangelog -S Source
dpkg
> Whilst this is perfectly fine and consistent with -l, -F, -L the manpage
> and --help output kinda imply that the space is fine. This led to some
> confusion as I thought my version of dpkg-dev was too old for this
> newish switch, etc. etc.
This was supposedly fixed in dpkg 1.17.21 with:
,---
* Accept «-S value» in addition to «-Svalue» in dpkg-parsechangelog.
Closes: #766559
`---
maybe you tested it with an earlier version than that?
Thanks,
Guillem
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