cowsay --help fails
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cowsay (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: cowsay
Here is what i see for cowsay version 3.03-9 on ubuntu 8.04:
$ cowsay --help
/usr/bin/cowsay version [unknown] calling Getopt:
running under Perl version 5.8.8.
Usage: cowsay [-OPTIONS [-MORE_OPTIONS]] [--] [PROGRAM_ARG1 ...]
The following single-character options are accepted:
With arguments: -e -f -T -W
Boolean (without arguments): -b -d -g -h -l -L -n -N -p -s -t -w -y
Options may be merged together. -- stops processing of options.
Space is not required between options and their arguments.
[Now continuing due to backward compatibility and excessive paranoia.
See ``perldoc Getopt::Std'' about $Getopt:
--
I expected cowsay to show me the help, like so many other programs that accept the --help option. Instead it confused me even more by showing me some perl gobbledegook.
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I will Wishlist this bug report.
connor@ lappy686- mk2:~$ apt-cache policy cowsay mirrors. easynews. com hardy/universe Packages dpkg/status
cowsay:
Installed: 3.03-9
Candidate: 3.03-9
Version table:
*** 3.03-9 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
connor@ lappy686- mk2:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
Codename: hardy