popt man pages are incomplete and erroneous
Bug #1637573 reported by
Daniel U. Thibault
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| popt (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
|
Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Error in popt man pages: the e-address <email address hidden> is invalid (probably has been for quite some time)
Omissions in popt man pages:
1) poptParseArgvString has an undocumented return int value. What does it return and what does it mean?
2) poptGetArg recovers “leftover arguments” but its documentation fails to make it clear that it should not be called until poptGetNextOpt has returned -1. I ran into this with an app that used popt but knew that it had no options to check for: after generating the context with poptGetContext, it tried to jump directly to poptGetArg, with disastrous results.
Revision history for this message
| Nish Aravamudan (nacc) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in popt (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| status: | New → Triaged |
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Thank you for filing this bug report! Given that the last Debian release was in 2014 and the last upstream release was in 2010, I'm not sure it's fair to ask you to submit this report to either upstream or Debian (although I did find https:/
Unfortunately, these do seem like upstream issues. It will take someone time to determine the answer to 1), at least. I will leave this bug open, but I'm not sure when and if it will get resolved.