[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#533494: import --help requires an X server.

[Trent W. Buck]

Package: imagemagick
Version: 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg2-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/import

I tried this:

    $ import --help
    import: unable to open X server `'.

I was going to report this as an error, because no X11 messages need
be sent in order to print help information.  But when cross-checking,
I found that

    $ import -help
    Version: ImageMagick 6.3.7 03/14/09 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
    Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2008 ImageMagick Studio LLC
    [...]

...works correctly, and that in the presence of X, the former command
prints something like "invalid arguments".  In the case (as above)
where there is both no X server and I have provided invalid arguments,
import should complain about invalid arguments instead of / as well as
complaining about the missing X server.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages imagemagick depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0             1.0.5-1           high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                  2.9-12            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-3           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.9-4.1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libice6                2:1.0.5-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62              6b-14             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liblcms1               1.18.dfsg-1       Color management library
ii  libmagick10            7:6.3.7.9.dfsg2-1 image manipulation library
ii  libsm6                 2:1.1.0-2         X11 Session Management library
ii  libtiff4               3.8.2-11          Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libx11-6               2:1.2.1-1         X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6               2:1.0.4-1         X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxt6                 1:1.0.5-3         X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime

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