Bug#657746: prolix: under- and wrongly-documented, not working interactively at all

[Yann Dirson]

Package: prolix
Version: 0.01-1
Severity: serious

* the manpage does not give a synopsis or explanation of options, only
  example uses not directly usable on standard files.  No proper
  documentation of interactive mode either.

* trying a simple thing like:
    strings /usr/bin/gdmflexiserver|prolix -r '[a-z]'
  ... does filter, but I'm back to the shell without any possibility
  of interactive use

* "prolix -h" tells that "-v" is --verbose, but attempting to use it
  makes it obvious that it is an alias to (undocumented) --version
  flag instead, and it does not even give prolix' version

* "-l" says "Option log requires an argument", which -h does not tell
  about

well... that makes it *far* less useful than "grep -v" in its current
state - looking forward to see it in better shape...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages prolix depends on:
ii  libdata-munge-perl             0.04-1
ii  libipc-run-perl                0.90-1
ii  libjson-perl                   2.53-1
ii  libmoose-perl                  2.0401-1
ii  libmoosex-configfromfile-perl  0.04-1
ii  libmoosex-getopt-perl          0.37-1
ii  libstring-shellquote-perl      1.03-1
ii  libterm-readkey-perl           2.30-4+b2
ii  libtry-tiny-perl               0.11-1
ii  perl                           5.14.2-6

prolix recommends no packages.

prolix suggests no packages.

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