Debian Bug report logs - #298858
openssl: [CA.pl] Change to use standard GNU --long and -s short option syntax

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Package: openssl; Maintainer for openssl is Debian OpenSSL Team <[email protected]>; Source for openssl is src:openssl (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Jari Aalto <[email protected]>

Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:18:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 0.9.7e-3

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From: Jari Aalto <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: openssl: [CA.pl] Change to use standard GNU --long and -s short option syntax
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:05:22 +0200
Package: openssl
Version: 0.9.7e-3
Severity: minor


The options in CA.pl are now defined as:

       ?, -h, -help
           prints a usage message.

       -newcert
	   ...

However, thsi does not comply with de facto GNU option syntax where
longer name are prefixed with "--" and short options with "-". Perl
guidelines also suggest using Getop::Long for purpose like this.

It seesm that the CA.pl uses home grown option handling so changing
it to use Getop::Long would be simple.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)

Versions of packages openssl depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libssl0.9.7                 0.9.7e-3     SSL shared libraries

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From: Christoph Martin <[email protected]>
To: Jari Aalto <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#298858: openssl: [CA.pl] Change to use standard GNU --long and -s short option syntax
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:48:03 +0200
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Hi Jari,

Jari Aalto schrieb:
> Package: openssl
> Version: 0.9.7e-3
> Severity: minor
>
>
> The options in CA.pl are now defined as:
>
>        ?, -h, -help
>            prints a usage message.
>
>        -newcert
> 	   ...
>
> However, thsi does not comply with de facto GNU option syntax where
> longer name are prefixed with "--" and short options with "-". Perl
> guidelines also suggest using Getop::Long for purpose like this.
>
> It seesm that the CA.pl uses home grown option handling so changing
> it to use Getop::Long would be simple.

The whole openssl suite uses this sort of options. So it would habe to
be changed in all the commands. I don't see a chance for an upstream change.

Christoph

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Severity set to `wishlist' from `minor' Request was from Rémi Denis-Courmont <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (full text, mbox, link).


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From: Rémi Denis-Courmont <[email protected]>
To: Christoph Martin <[email protected]>, Jari Aalto <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#298858: openssl: [CA.pl] Change to use standard GNU --long and -s short option syntax
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 15:08:03 +0300
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severity 298858 wishlist
thanks

Le vendredi 29 avril 2005 16:48, Christoph Martin a écrit :
> > It seesm that the CA.pl uses home grown option handling so changing
> > it to use Getop::Long would be simple.
>
> The whole openssl suite uses this sort of options. So it would habe
> to be changed in all the commands. I don't see a chance for an
> upstream change.

Yep, and there are tons of other command line programs in other packages 
using this (BSD?) syntax too. Why should it be changed anyway? (good 
candidate for the wontfix rag IMHO, but I'm not package maintainer).

-- 
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