Package: devscripts
Version: 2.8.8
Severity: important
File: /usr/bin/bts
I'm giving this bug "important" severity because it reflects a regression
in functionality from 2.8.5. Tristan Seligmann and I spoke on IRC about,
and he says the regression must have happened in either 2.8.7 or 2.8.8.
In short, the following used to work:
bts tag 233551 + pending # fixed in Debian X Strike Force XFree86 repository;
to view, run "svn diff -r 2132:2133 svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86"
Now, it doesn't. I get the following error instead:
Option is ambiguous (cache, cache-mode, cache-mode, f, force-refresh, help,
help, m, mailreader, mailreader, m, cache, noconf, force-refresh, offline,
cache, noconf, force-refresh, offline, o, offline, online, version)
Usage: bts [options]
Run bts --help for more details
4529 {9} [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/packages/xfree86/svn/trunk$
(The "{9}" above indicates the exit status of the preceding command.)
Lest you tell me I'm not quoting the comment field sufficiently, let me show you
the context in which it was invoked. I have a shell script called
"markpending" that I use to tag bugs pending with an informative comment
that points people to one of my SVN repositories (as you can see above).
It's essentially just a wrapper for the "bts" command, and invokes it thus:
bts tag "$BUG" + pending "$EXPLANATION"
You can review the script at:
svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsftoolbox/trunk/bin/markpending
I have downgraded to 2.8.5, and the same command worked.
Thanks for your attention.
(As an aide, the error message above appears to repeat some of the
supported options twice.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-powerpc-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii debianutils 2.11.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg-dev 1.10.26 Package building tools for Debian
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii perl 5.8.4-5 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
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