lastfmproxy command-line arguments not processed correctly

[gerdemb]

Binary package hint: lastfmproxy

Argument passing to lastfmproxy is strange. Any argument with double dashes will be intercepted by the touch command in the /usr/sbin/lastfmproxy wrapper script. It's not clear to me what the wrapper script is supposed to be doing. In the end, it appears that lastfmproxy accepts only a single argument which is a directory name, but having touch intercept the (incorrect) argument first is confusing.

gerdemb-laptop:~> lastfmproxy --help
Usage: touch [OPTION]... FILE...
Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
  -a change only the access time
  -c, --no-create do not create any files
  -d, --date=STRING parse STRING and use it instead of current time
  -f (ignored)
  -m change only the modification time
  -r, --reference=FILE use this file's times instead of current time
  -t STAMP use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of current time
  --time=WORD change the specified time:
                           WORD is access, atime, or use: equivalent to -a
                           WORD is modify or mtime: equivalent to -m
      --help display this help and exit
      --version output version information and exit

Note that the -d and -t options accept different time-date formats.

If a FILE is -, touch standard output.

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/usr/sbin/lastfmproxy: 10: cannot create --help: Permission denied
gerdemb-laptop:~>

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

According to the man page the syntax is:
  lastfmproxy [ /path/to/log/file ]