[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#847643: node-uglify: help output does not usefully describe the command

[Ben Finney]

Package: node-uglify
Version: 2.7.4-1
Severity: normal

The ‘uglifyjs --help’ output is not helpful for learning to use the command:

    $ uglifyjs --help
    [object Object]

Conventionally that should produce a usage message that tells the
reader what the command does, and all the ways to invoke the program,
with descriptions of all possible arbuments and options.

    $ uglifyjs --help
    Usage: uglifyjs --foo --bar COLOR --baz INFILE OUTFILE
    Obfuscate the infile to the outfile with a snargle snorgle.

    INFILE
        The input file to obfuscate.

    OUTFILE
        The obfuscated output.

    Options:
        --foo
                Obfuscate upside down.
        --bar COLOR
                Turn the output to COLOR.
                (default: green)
        --baz
                Hum gently while working.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_AU.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages node-uglify depends on:
ii  node-async  0.8.0-1
ii  node-yargs  6.4.0-2
ii  nodejs      4.6.1~dfsg-1

Versions of packages node-uglify recommends:
ii  node-source-map  0.5.6+dfsg-1

Versions of packages node-uglify suggests:
pn  node-uglify-to-browserify  <none>

-- no debconf information

-- 
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  `\       is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument |
_o__)                        will play itself.” —Johann Sebastian Bach |
Ben Finney <bignose at debian.org>
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