[submittodebian] '--help' runs the program anyway

Bug #988009 reported by Aditya V
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Bug Description

Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 2

When I run 'submittodebian --help', it doesn't show any 'help' related things, like a manpage. I suggest that it opens up the manpage when '--help' is run.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubuntu-dev-tools 0.141
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-15.24-generic 3.2.5
Uname: Linux 3.2.14-kroqernel+ x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 7f98738f6663bda1ae1c2900a3a1db71
CheckboxSystem: 577751a334467e78ed04da699e5debc9
Date: Tue Apr 24 15:00:08 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-dev-tools
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-11 (73 days ago)

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Aditya V (kroq-gar78) wrote :
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Aditya V (kroq-gar78) wrote :

Here is the patch. It opens up the manpage when '--help' is called and then exits.

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote :

The attachment "Make '--help' to go manpage and then exit" of this bug report has been identified as being a patch in the form of a debdiff. The ubuntu-sponsors team has been subscribed to the bug report so that they can review and hopefully sponsor the debdiff. In the event that this is in fact not a patch you can resolve this situation by removing the tag 'patch' from the bug report and editing the attachment so that it is not flagged as a patch. Additionally, if you are member of the ubuntu-sponsors team please also unsubscribe the team from this bug report.

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tags: added: patch
Benjamin Drung (bdrung)
Changed in ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-dev-tools - 0.142

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ubuntu-dev-tools (0.142) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Stefano Rivera ]
  * mk-sbuild: Support kmod, when checking for overlayfs availability.
  * pbuilder-dist: improve bash_completion for *.dsc files. Thanks Maarten
    Bezemer. (Closes: #670924, LP: #770529)
  * check-mir, check-symbols, grep-merges, pbuilder-dist-simple,
    setup-packaging-environment, submittodebian, ubuntu-iso:
    Do enough argument parsing to handle --help (LP: #988009)
  * dgetlp: Require a UTF-8 locale, or it'll crash when displaying errors
    (LP: #979117)
  * pbuilder-dist: Don't try to enable -updates for Debian testing
    (LP: #993006)
  * pbuilder-dist, pull-debian-source, pull-lp-source, requestsync,
    reverse-depends, submittodebian, syncpackage:
    Handle outdated distro-info data. Fall back to sane defaults where
    possible. (Closes: #673957)
  * backportpackage: Avoid uploading orig tarballs if they are already present
    in the destination PPA (LP: #691897)
  * Allow mk-sbuild to be run by root if a configuration file exists
    (LP: #888736)
  * backportpackage: Allow unsigned backports (LP: #992739)
  * update-maintainer: Add a function to restore the original maintainer.
    - Update sponsor-patch to use the new API resulting from this change
      (LP: #1002999)
  * submittodebian: Revert Ubuntu Maintainer mangling, and re-build the source
    package before diffing. (LP: #902233)

  [ Evan Broder ]
  * backportpackage: Add -c, --close flag to include a changelog closer.
  * backportpackage: Switch to ~ubuntu12.04.1-style version numbers
    instead of ~precise1, to make our version numbers more future-proof.
  * backportpackage: Pass -v to debuild with last published version
    number. This matches the way backports have traditionally been
    generated by archive admins.

 -- Stefano Rivera <email address hidden> Mon, 28 May 2012 23:35:52 +0100

Changed in ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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