[debhelper-devel] Bug#838446: debhelper: --onlyscripts and --noscripts are not consistent with other options, should use a dash too

[Raphaël Hertzog]

Package: debhelper
Version: 10
Severity: minor

Please support --only-scripts and --no-scripts and advertise those options
insted of --onlyscripts and --noscripts that should be deprecated.

I stumbled on this inconsistency when I replaced "--noscripts" by
"--nostart" and I got a failure... because it's actually --no-start
with a dash.

All options uses dashes except the two I mentionned, it would be
nice if they could be fixed.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  autotools-dev            20160430.1
ii  binutils                 2.27-8
ii  dh-autoreconf            12
ii  dh-strip-nondeterminism  0.028-1
ii  dpkg                     1.18.10
ii  dpkg-dev                 1.18.10
ii  file                     1:5.28-4
ii  libdpkg-perl             1.18.10
ii  man-db                   2.7.5-1
ii  perl                     5.22.2-5
ii  po-debconf               1.0.19

debhelper recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
ii  dh-make  2.201608

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