[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#883129: ntpdate: Wrong evaluation of an invalid option

[Bjarni Ingi Gislason]

Package: ntpdate
Version: 1:4.2.8p10+dfsg-5
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

Strange string "rsion" in the output.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

command: ntpdate --version

   * What was the outcome of this action?

ntpdate: unknown option --
ntpdate: encryption delay rsion is unlikely
usage: ntpdate [-46bBdqsuv] [-a key#] [-e delay] [-k file] [-p samples] [-o version#] [-t timeo] server ...

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

ntpdate: unknown option --version
usage: ntpdate ...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.51-2u3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=is_IS.iso88591, LC_CTYPE=is_IS.iso88591 (charmap=ISO-8859-1), LANGUAGE=is_IS.iso88591 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages ntpdate depends on:
ii  dpkg       1.19.0.4
ii  libc6      2.25-2
ii  libssl1.1  1.1.0g-2
ii  netbase    5.4

ntpdate recommends no packages.

ntpdate suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/ntpdate changed [not included]

-- no debconf information

-- 
Bjarni I. Gislason