Bug#570119: grub-common: grub-mkrescue has very different calling conventions on powerpc than on amd64 or x86

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Package: grub-common
Version: 1.98~20100115-1
Severity: normal

On grub-common on i386 and amd64, the synopsis for grub-mkrescue is:

  grub-mkrescue [OPTION] SOURCE...

on powerpc, the synopsis appears to be:

  grub-mkrescue [OPTION] output_image

This makes it difficult to invoke grub-mkrescue consistently across
supported architectures (e.g. in scripts to build rescue CDs, etc)

note: the current grub-mkrescue synopsis used to be used on i386 and
amd64, but it appears to have changed in the last few months.  I'm not
sure why powerpc didn't change at the same time.

If there could be one standard calling convention across
architectures, that would make the tool much more useful.

Thanks for grub!

          --dkg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
ii  base-files              5.1              Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  dpkg                    1.15.5.6         Debian package management system
ii  gettext-base            0.17-8           GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  install-info            4.13a.dfsg.1-5   Manage installed documentation in 
ii  libc6                   2.10.2-2         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.11-1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages grub-common recommends:
ii  os-prober                     1.35       utility to detect other OSes on a 

Versions of packages grub-common suggests:
pn  grub-emu                      <none>     (no description available)
ii  multiboot-doc                 0.97-59    The Multiboot specification

-- no debconf information