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

[Christoph Biedl]

David Prévot wrote...

> 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 documentation of dpkg options, that may quickly be outdated, inaccurate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.

As far as I can see, debuild has a parser for each option that later
is forwarded to other programs. So it's possible to have a complete
list, and "outdated" will happen only as a result of sloppy
development. Inaccurancy is not a problem if the debuild manpage
just tells "The following options are forwarded to dpkg-...", followed
by the list.

This however was enough information to guide the curious who want to
understand what a specific option does.

Disclaimer: I might have misunderstood how debuild actually deals with
@ARGV.

    Christoph
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