Bug#816454: lintian-info: please add --tag as alternative to --tags
Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> writes:
> Hmm. Lintian has been configuring Getopt::Long with no_auto_abbrev at
> least since 0.9.3 (released in 1998). Does anybody remember why? ;-)
I dislike auto_abbrev because it means that a valid flag can become
invalid because you add an entirely different flag. I find that behavior
really unintuitive and surprising.
Most people don't want to enter in random prefixes of flags. There are
usually specific things that they think to enter. For that, it feels
cleaner to just add them as explicit aliases.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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