lsmem -v replaced with -V

[John George]

The -v options is no longer valid, as -V has replaced it.
This is not really a big issue but it seem odd as this is a shift away from the standard -v option used by most of the other utilities in the s390-tools package and forces modification of tests and tools that collect the versions.

ubuntu@s5lp7:~$ lsmem -v
lsmem: invalid option -- 'v'
Try 'lsmem --help' for more information.
ubuntu@s5lp7:~$ lsmem -V
lsmem from util-linux 2.30.1

ubuntu@s5lp7:~$ apt-cache policy s390-tools
s390-tools:
  Installed: 1.39.0-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 1.39.0-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
     1.39.0-0ubuntu3 500
        500 http://us.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports artful/main s390x Packages
 *** 1.39.0-0ubuntu3 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Frank Heimes (fheimes)]

Waiting for an update from IBM - setting to Incomplete for now.

[Heinz-Werner Seeck (heinz-werner-seeck)]

I run a short test :
root@m3545034:~# lsmem --v
lsmem from util-linux 2.34
root@m3545034:~# lsmem -V
lsmem from util-linux 2.34
root@m3545034:~# lsmem -v
lsmem: invalid option -- 'v'
Try 'lsmem --help' for more information.

Can the testcase be changed to --v ?
or is there a need for an upstream change in util-linux ?

[Frank Heimes (fheimes)]

Test cases can always be adjusted - no doubt about it (and also the reason why this is marred with Importance low).

But the case here is that the "de-facto" standard is that a short version or an argument is usually introduced by one dash:
lsmem -v
and the long version by two dashes:
lsmem --version
(the latter one is fine).
Having '--v' is unusual - that's the point here ('-version' would be unusual, too).
(I personally also so no reason for the change to upper case 'V', probably not knowing all background and plans?!)

The 'de-facto' way for this argument (especially for 'version') is used in almost all other tools of the s390-tools package, like lscpumf, lszdev, lschp, lsreipl and lot's of others.

It's of course not a must to change it, but would be very reasonable.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[John George (jog)]

Same behavior in 20.10

[Frank Heimes (fheimes)]

This got meanwhile fixed - hence changing to Fix Released and closing this.