Bug#773388: debuild: Please add undocumented options to manpage

[David Prévot]

Hi,

Le 17/12/2014 16:36, Christoph Biedl a écrit :
> Package: devscripts


> after I was told to use debuild's -v${previous_version} option, I
> wanted to learn more about it - to find it's not mentioned anywhere in
> the manpage.

It’s not a debuild option, but a dpkg-buildpackage one (they are
documented as explicitly accepted in the SYNOPSIS section:
	debuild [debuild options] [dpkg-buildpackage options] …)

> Please add a description for all options debuild
> understands.

Not sure debuild tries to understand options it passes to
dpkg-buildpackage(1) that is already explicitly part of the SEE ALSO
section.

> Even if it's just passed to other programs like
> dpkg-genchanges in that case.

I don’t believe it would be a good idea to maintain in devscripts
documentation of dpkg options, that may quickly be outdated, inaccurate
and non-exhaustive.

Regards

David, not a devscript maintainer, but interested in documentation
maintenance.

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