Bug#525011: gksu: option parsing is not well documented

[Ximin Luo]

Package: gksu
Version: 2.0.2-1
Severity: normal

took me a while to figure out, because the manual mentions -- nowhere, instead saying

gksu [-u <user>] [options] <command>

implying that once it encounters something it thinks is a command, everything after it is
also treated as a command. this is clearly not the case, as below (empty is just a file):

infinity0 at xl269:~$ gksu --sudo-mode -- ls -la empty 
-rw-r--r-- 1 infinity0 infinity0 0 2009-03-24 23:08 empty
infinity0 at xl269:~$ gksu --sudo-mode ls -la empty 
empty
infinity0 at xl269:~$ gksu --su-mode -- ls -la empty 
-rw-r--r-- 1 infinity0 infinity0 0 2009-03-24 23:08 empty
infinity0 at xl269:~$ gksu --su-mode ls -la empty 
ls: cannot access empty: No such file or directory

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gksu depends on:
ii  gnome-keyring          2.24.1-2          GNOME keyring services (daemon and
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.24.0-2          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                  2.9-4             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.8.6-2+b1        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-3           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.9-4           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4            2.24.0-7          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgksu2-0             2.0.9-1           library providing su and sudo func
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.20.0-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0      2.24.1-2          GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.14.7-5          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.24.0-3+b1       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libstartup-notificatio 0.9-1             library for program launch feedbac
ii  sudo                   1.7.0-1           Provide limited super user privile
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime

gksu recommends no packages.

gksu suggests no packages.

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