Bug#590874: grub-pc: --help option and help command show help with missing whitespace

Colin Watson cjwatson at debian.org
Mon Aug 2 04:01:48 UTC 2010


tags 590874 fixed-upstream
thanks

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:47:54PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> The help command, and the --help option to various commands, now seems
> to show broken help output that lacks newlines between options and
> whitespace between an option and its help text.
> 
> For example, "cat --help" shows:
> 
> Usage: cat FILE
> Show the contents of a file.
> 
>     --dosAccept DOS-style CR/NL line endings.-h, --helpDisplay this help and
> exit.-u, --usageDisplay the usage of this command and exit.
> 
> 
> This bug does not occur in the upstream grub-1.98 release, but it does
> occur with a current upstream snapshot from bzr, and it does occur with
> the current version in Debian.

This was fixed upstream in r2582, so this will be fixed in the next
snapshot.

Thanks,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]





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