Debian Bug report logs - #237589
[TRIVIAL][S-S-D] -V requires an argument

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joost Cassee <joost@cassee.net>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: dpkg: -V requires an argument

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:36:44 +0100

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.18.1
Severity: normal

start-stop-daemon -V requires an argument. This causes the cfengine2
init script to fail.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.23-1-386
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  dselect                     1.10.18.1    a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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Message #10 received at 237589@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>

To: Joost Cassee <joost@cassee.net>, 237589@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#237589: dpkg: -V requires an argument

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:07:45 +0000

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retitle 237589 [TRIVIAL][S-S-D] -V requires an argument
tags 237589 patch pending
thanks

On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 09:36, Joost Cassee wrote:

> start-stop-daemon -V requires an argument. This causes the cfengine2
> init script to fail.
> 
On the one hand, the fact that cfengine2's init script fails is a
problem with cfengine2 not passing the correct arguments to s-s-d.

On the other, s-s-d shouldn't require an argument for -V (version), and
certainly doesn't do anything with it.

Scott
-- 
Have you ever, ever felt like this?
Had strange things happen?  Are you going round the twist?

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Index: debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- debian/changelog	(revision 1896)
+++ debian/changelog	(working copy)
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 dpkg (1.10.21) unstable; urgency=low
 
-  * 
+  * Don't require argument for start-stop-daemon -V.  Closes: #237589.
 
  -- Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>  UNRELEASED
 
Index: ChangeLog
===================================================================
--- ChangeLog	(revision 1896)
+++ ChangeLog	(working copy)
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Fri Mar 12 15:05:52 GMT 2004 Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>
+
+  * utils/start-stop-daemon.c: Don't require an argument for -V (version).
+
 Thu Mar 11 11:36:06 GMT 2004 Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>
 
   * version-nr, debian/changelog: Bump version to 1.10.21.
Index: utils/start-stop-daemon.c
===================================================================
--- utils/start-stop-daemon.c	(revision 1891)
+++ utils/start-stop-daemon.c	(working copy)
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@
 	int c;
 
 	for (;;) {
-		c = getopt_long(argc, argv, "HKSV:a:n:op:qr:s:tu:vx:c:N:bmR:g:d:",
+		c = getopt_long(argc, argv, "HKSVa:n:op:qr:s:tu:vx:c:N:bmR:g:d:",
 				longopts, (int *) 0);
 		if (c == -1)
 			break;

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Message #19 received at 237589@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: warlok2000@altavista.com

To: 237589@bugs.debian.org

Subject: read it immediately

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:05:11 +0100

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do you?

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Message #24 received at 237589@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: sabine.f.wolf@web.de

To: 237589@bugs.debian.org

Subject: read it immediately

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:45:17 +0100

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what does it mean?

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Message #29 received at 237589-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>

To: 237589-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#237589: fixed in dpkg 1.10.21

Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 14:17:03 -0400

Source: dpkg
Source-Version: 1.10.21

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
dpkg, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

dpkg-dev_1.10.21_all.deb
  to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg-dev_1.10.21_all.deb
dpkg-doc_1.10.21_all.deb
  to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg-doc_1.10.21_all.deb
dpkg_1.10.21.dsc
  to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.10.21.dsc
dpkg_1.10.21.tar.gz
  to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.10.21.tar.gz
dpkg_1.10.21_i386.deb
  to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.10.21_i386.deb
dselect_1.10.21_i386.deb
  to pool/main/d/dpkg/dselect_1.10.21_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 237589@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com> (supplier of updated dpkg package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.7
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 18:55:10 +0100
Source: dpkg
Binary: dpkg-doc dpkg dselect dpkg-dev dpkg-static
Architecture: source all i386
Version: 1.10.21
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Dpkg Development <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>
Description: 
 dpkg       - Package maintenance system for Debian
 dpkg-dev   - Package building tools for Debian
 dpkg-doc   - Dpkg Internals Documentation
 dselect    - a user tool to manage Debian packages
Closes: 10879 33046 47267 90623 98210 102094 109669 109691 115352 120970 124225 146167 151799 155456 158916 160761 161156 166052 171489 174973 174978 179192 187952 200701 200763 204275 207758 214699 219210 220776 225086 233614 237589 237624 237864 239000 240081 241503 242870 243191 244098 244316
Changes: 
 dpkg (1.10.21) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Fix incorrect linked list node removal code that caused every second
     shared or diverted conffile to be deleted by dpkg.
     Closes: #10879, #33046, #47267, #90623, #98210, #109691, #146167.
     Closes: #155456, #204275.
   * Call mknod with the required device type.  Closes: #158916.
   * Correct the default query output format to be consistent with
     what the underlying library expects.  Closes: #174973.
   * Fix missing NULL-termination in dpkg-query -W display of dependency
     fields.  Closes: #174978
   * Strip output from md5sum(1) after the first whitespace character.
     Closes: #200763.
   * Output a warning if we cannot open a configuration file instead of
     treating it as a fatal error, in case our home directory is not readable
     by root.  Closes: #200701.
   * Set LC_ALL to C before spawning off dpkg --search, to avoid searching
     on localized strings.  Closes: #244316.
   * Don't require argument for start-stop-daemon -V.  Closes: #237589.
   * Correct use of @ARGV within dpkg-scanpackages, allowing -u to work
     once again.  Closes: #225086, #241503.
   * Make sure file permissions passed to dpkg-statoverride are numeric.
     Closes: #161156.
   * Correctly break out of the loop in install-info.
     Closes: #124225, #160761.
   * Add --dir-file option to install-info for GNU install-info
     compatibility.  Closes: #179192
   * Refer to debian-policy in dpkg-doc's description instead of the
     non-existant packaging-manual.  Closes: #120970.
   * Remove incorrect mention of build-essential from dpkg-checkbuilddeps
     manpage.  Closes: #219210.
   * Add a note about diverting shared libraries to the dpkg-divert
     manpage.  Closes: #214699.
   * Updated Translations:
     - Brazilian Portugese (Andre Luis Lopes).  Closes: #237864.
     - Catalan (Jordi Mallach).
     - Danish (Claus Hindsgaul).  Closes: #237624.
     - Dutch (Pieter-Paul Spiertz, Bart Cornelis, Erwin).
       Closes: #102094, #151799, #207758.
     - French (Sam Hocevar).  Closes: #243191.
     - German (Florian Ernst).  Closes: #109669, #115352, #187952, #244098.
     - Japanese manpages (KISE Hiroshi).  Closes: #220776.
     - Polish (Bartosz Fenski).  Closes: #242870.
     - Spanish (Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña).  Closes: #166052.
     - Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
   * New Translations:
     - Japanese dpkg-source manpage (KISE Hiroshi).  Closes: #239000.
     - Norwegian Nynorsk (Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes).  Closes: #233614.
     - Portguese (Miguel Figueiredo).  Closes: #240081.
     - Spanish dpkg-source manpage (Ruben Porras).  Closes: #171489.
Files: 
 3c0ee1d26bd55362b92eee8e6255aee0 798 base required dpkg_1.10.21.dsc
 a9f6c43891db74d727beab7dfc0ee663 1682647 base required dpkg_1.10.21.tar.gz
 e492251ba4cf345982782b7880056e1f 1220962 base required dpkg_1.10.21_i386.deb
 132ac9df0f3dd8fd8b7adbf409f8ed3e 105530 base required dselect_1.10.21_i386.deb
 48e0a00caea19997c46ad2d7539b2731 137490 utils standard dpkg-dev_1.10.21_all.deb
 794381a64e07416e48af7d6bb4ae52d0 10620 doc optional dpkg-doc_1.10.21_all.deb

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