Package: devscripts
Version: 2.10.65.1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/debuild


According the man page, debuild is suppose to accept --username value
as a valid option:

       --username username
              When signing, use debrsign instead of debsign.  username
specifies the credentials to be used.

So I pass this option through git-buildpackage, which invokes debuild
as follows:

debuild -i -I --username value

however debuild complains:

debuild: unknown dpkg-buildpackage/debuild option: --username
debuild: unknown dpkg-buildpackage/debuild option: value

debuild passes the option through to dpkg-buildpackage, which then
complains some more.

If --username is not a valid option it should not be documented in the man page.

Trying --username=value also generates a similar error.
-- 
Brian May <[email protected]>




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