[Python-apps-team] Bug#618964: rdiff-backup is not friendly at all when called with --help

[Rogério Brito]

Package: rdiff-backup
Version: 1.2.8-6
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream

Hi there.

I have just started using rdiff-backup to, hummm, backup some of my files
and some of the options are not exactly mnemonic. Then, by pure muscule
memory, I always type "rdiff-backup --help" and I am greeted with the less
than helpful:

,----[ rdiff-backup --help ]
| Fatal Error: Bad commandline options: option --help not recognized
| See the rdiff-backup manual page for more information.
`----

This is just a "papercut-like" bug that is easy to fix. I see that upstream
already has a new development version of rdiff-backup that may, perhaps,
have this "feature".

Is there the possibility of either packaging a newer version or of putting a
patch in the version that is currently in sid?


Thanks,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-1-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages rdiff-backup depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-11  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  librsync1                     0.9.7-7    rsync remote-delta algorithm libra
ii  python                        2.6.6-11   interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-support                1.0.12     automated rebuilding support for P

Versions of packages rdiff-backup recommends:
pn  python-pylibacl               <none>     (no description available)
pn  python-pyxattr                <none>     (no description available)

rdiff-backup suggests no packages.

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