Bug#237260: menu-methods use incorrectly replacewith

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 01:57:35PM -0600, Chris Cheney wrote:
> Then how come update-menus doesn't output the above messages for me? I'm
> not saying you are wrong just that update-menus in sid does not give the
> maintainer any notice that something is wrong like you imply in your bug
> report. Recall that I had mentioned that replacewith was confusing in
> the documentation, so the fact that update-menus really doesn't print
> any errors in the version in Debian compounds the likelyhood of scripts
> doing it wrong. A version of menu in Debian that can print messages like
> you showed above would be very useful for maintainers (imho).
> 
> calc:/etc/menu-methods# update-menus
> calc:/etc/menu-methods#
> 
> No error messages at all, -v (verbose) and -d (debug) doesn't show any
> errors either.
> 
> BTW - I have menu version 2.1.9-5.

Yes, I use the CVS version that does output this message. But either
way, using two parameters of different length is nonsensical.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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