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Bug#504302: marked as done (lintian: Rename --show-overrides to a --display-* option)

Your message dated Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:23:43 -0800
with message-id <87ljtizd0w.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
and subject line Re: Bug#504302: lintian: Rename --show-overrides to a --display-* option
has caused the Debian Bug report #504302,
regarding lintian: Rename --show-overrides to a --display-* option
to be marked as done.

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Package: lintian
Version: 2.0.0
Severity: wishlist


For canonical option names like these:

       --display-info
       --display-experimental
       ...

it would be expected to find similarly named:

       --display-overrides

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-openvz-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils            2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat            1.45-2               produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev            1.14.22              Debian package development tools
ii  file                4.26-1               Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext             0.17-4               GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian     0.35.0+20060710.1    Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2              parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  libtimedate-perl    1.1600-9             Time and date functions for Perl
ii  liburi-perl         1.35.dfsg.1-1        Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  man-db              2.5.2-3              on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-15            Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch            <none>     (no description available)
pn  libtext-template-perl         <none>     (no description available)
ii  man-db                        2.5.2-3    on-line manual pager

-- no debconf information

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"Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
> On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 18:43 +0200, jaalto wrote:

>> For canonical option names like these:
>> 
>>        --display-info
>>        --display-experimental
>>        ...
>> 
>> it would be expected to find similarly named:
>> 
>>        --display-overrides

> Renaming an option that's existed for nearly eight years is never a good
> idea. I'm not personally convinced it's worth adding a synonym for the
> existing option purely for aesthetic reasons; at least, I've never heard
> of anyone getting confused by the current name.

For the reasons stated by Adam, I'm closing this bug.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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