Bug#154633: install-info: --help should use stdout
On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 11:35:09PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Yann Dirson wrote:
> > This is the convention specified by GNU coding standards.
>
> I'm not argueing with using stdout, but why would GNU coding standards
> matter? I don't agree with them and dpkg is not a GNU project.
It's just that this convention is used by most of our core tools, and being
able to consistently use "foo --help | less" is quite helpful.
Regards,
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