Bug#574280: morituri: advertises --help on error messages, but that option provides no fuerther information

[Jonas Smedegaard]

severity 574280 wishlist
retitle 574280 morituri: --help option hint could be less confusing
thanks

[sent again, properly cc'ed control at bugs.debian.org this time]

Hi Peter,

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:05:23AM +0100, Peter Wiersig wrote:
>sample session:
> > ~$ rip drive
> > Usage: rip drive [command]
> >
> > Use --help to get a list of commands.
> > ~$ rip drive --help
> > Usage:
> >   rip [OPTION...] - GStreamer initialization
> >
> > Help Options:
> >   -h, --help                        Show help options
> >   --help-all                        Show all help options
> >   --help-gst                        Show GStreamer Options
>
>"rip --help" also doesn't provide any commands or usage information.

Try "rip drive --help".

What morituri calls "commands" are what I personally would call 
subcommands.

Thanks for reporting this anyway - I dare lower the severity and retitle 
as I see is more relevant.  Please do tell me if you disagree.

And feel free to post more bugs and suggestions (i.e. "wishlist" bugs).  
Morituri is quite young and I imagine upstream could use some 
encouragement from enthusiastic users :-)


   - Jonas

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