Bug#361105: RFE: GOption output should tabulate long help messages, not break the line mid-word.

[Neil Williams]

Package: libglib2.0-0
Version: 2.10.1-2
Severity: wishlist

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GOption help output gets very ugly and almost unusable with long help
messages.

GOption output:

- --invoice-vendor            Shorthand to relate an event or expense to
a contact, by vendor. Requires -t.
- --invoice-city              Shorthand to relate an event or expense to
a contact, by city. Requires -t.

Compare with the equivalent popt output:
- --invoice-vendor            Shorthand to relate an event or expense to a
                            contact, by vendor. Requires -t.
- --invoice-city              Shorthand to relate an event or expense to a
                            contact, by city. Requires -t.

GOption also breaks help messages mid-word which just makes things ugly:

- --debug                     Print debugging information to a temporary fi
le.

I was hoping to replace popt with GOption but I'll have to live with the
popt dependency until GOption produces content that is at least as
pleasant for users as popt.

If --help output is difficult to read, it defeats the purpose of --help.


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages libglib2.0-0 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-5    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

Versions of packages libglib2.0-0 recommends:
ii  libglib2.0-data               2.10.1-2   Common files for GLib library

- -- no debconf information

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