Bug#281646: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#281646: bug in logtail regarding command line options

[Gerfried Fuchs]

* maximilian attems <debian at sternwelten.at> [2004-11-18 10:41]:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, john at interflora.com.au wrote:
>> At 02:41 PM 18/11/2004, you wrote:
>> >so the manpge shouldn't have brackets around the -o switch,
>> >but brackets around the -f switch?
>> >strange in normal life i always considered to put unimportant stuff
>> >under brackets or whatever.
>> 
>> The brackets on a man page syntax entry indicate that the item is optional.
>> Lack of brackets indicate that the item is mandatory.
> 
> fixed in current cvs of logcheck,
> logtail(8) has now the correct denotations. :)

 Are you sure you understood him correctly? I guess you misunderstood
him, I think the original version in fact _was_ correct.

 Your change doesn't make sense to me because logtail insists on the -f
switch, so putting it in [] is wrong, this is also what john said. He
talked about that -f was _formerly_ optional but isn't any longer, so
the (not anymore) current manpage *is* (was) correct in that respect.

 Btw., it is strange that the options are the only places where the \fX
notation is used -- I'll change this to constant typesetting.

 Please revert your changes, they were wrong.

> i'll add soon a News.Debian item for logtail, so that the changed
> interface gets better documanted for the upgrade path.

 That reminds me, we wanted to move the NEWS.Debian into the debian
subdirectory, not have it in the general package....

 So long,
Alfie
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