On Sat, 27 Jun 2020, root wrote: > dpkg (1.20.0) experimental; urgency=medium > > [ Guillem Jover ] > * perl: Switch Getopt::Long from bundling to bundling_values. This means > the few scripts using Getopt::Long will stop accepting options in the > form «-ab» for «-a -b», which is not future-proof, as it does not allow > these options to get new arguments without making them ambiguous.
You shouldn’t do that for two reasons: 1. It breaks existing users that use the short form. 2. For your example, if -a were to ever gain an argument, the existing -b is silently used as the argument and not parsed as option any more breaking everything horribly. For this reason any existing option MUST NOT get an argument later. bye, //mirabilos -- «MyISAM tables -will- get corrupted eventually. This is a fact of life. » “mysql is about as much database as ms access” – “MSSQL at least descends from a database” “it's a rebranded SyBase” “MySQL however was born from a flatfile and went downhill from there” – “at least jetDB doesn’t claim to be a database” (#nosec) ‣‣‣ Please let MySQL and MariaDB finally die!
