On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Lukas Fleischer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 10:10:14AM -0600, Dan McGee wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:49 AM, Lukas Fleischer >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Be consistent with all other contrib scripts and support the "--help" >> > command line switch. Fixes FS#27258. >> Where are we on consistency here with what we expect out of scripts in >> scripts/? All of these support -h/--help/-V/--version; is it logical >> to require the same for scripts in contrib? > > You surely know... :) I only saw that bug report and found it weird that > paclist displays a usage message if we pass no parameters but does > nothing when it is invoked with "-h" (as opposed to all other contrib > scripts).
Well my gut tells me "yes, we should do this". Take a look at scripts/Makefile.am, namely the first two lines- it would be nice if we could do this in contrib/ as well. I'll apply this; awaiting further patches for fixing the rest of the scripts and adding the above automake option. :) -Dan
