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Bug#483730: marked as done (ssh-vulnkey --help)

Your message dated Fri, 30 May 2008 22:18:19 +0100
with message-id <20080530211819.GI16645@riva.ucam.org>
and subject line Re: Bug#483730: ssh-vulnkey --help
has caused the Debian Bug report #483730,
regarding ssh-vulnkey --help
to be marked as done.

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: openssh-client
Version: 1:4.7p1-12
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/ssh-vulnkey

Add a --help option that prints usage. Mention it on the man page and
usage message. And detect unknown options, printing the usage message.

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--- Begin Message --- 
tags 483730 wontfix
thanks

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 03:56:21AM +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> Package: openssh-client
> Version: 1:4.7p1-12
> Severity: wishlist
> File: /usr/bin/ssh-vulnkey
> 
> Add a --help option that prints usage. Mention it on the man page and
> usage message.

I'm not going to make ssh-vulnkey diverge from the rest of OpenSSH; it's
more important to be consistent with its brethren tools. There are
already bugs about this (e.g. #303168). Remember that OpenSSH's heritage
is BSD, not GNU; --help is a GNU tradition and does not have wide
adoption in the BSD world.

You are welcome to not like this, but I have enough divergence from
upstream to maintain as it is and am not interested in adding long
option parsing to all tools. If you want to press for this, please take
it to bugzilla.mindrot.org; I would rather not be the one to forward it
there as I want to retain what credit I have with upstream rather than
getting into arguments about cosmetics. I am certainly not going to do
it one program at a time!

'ssh-vulnkey -h' prints usage text.

> And detect unknown options, printing the usage message.

It already does, but only for short options - just like the rest of
OpenSSH.

Regards,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]

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