Bug#34588: marked as done (dpkg: wrong error message with bad --compare-versions command)
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Subject: dpkg: wrong error message with bad --compare-versions command
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From: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.34
$ dpkg --compare-versions 2.1 lt
dpkg: --cmpversions takes three arguments: <version> <relation> <version>
...
This should obviously say:
dpkg: --compare-versions takes ...
Julian
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