Bug#864544: libgetopt-long-descriptive-perl: option value : and :+ processing are very broken

[gregor herrmann]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 19:12:16 +0100, Graham Cobb wrote:

> Apologies, Gregor, for my misunderstanding. I had thought that
> libgetopt-long-descriptive-perl provided both. I have now removed
> libgetopt-long-descriptive-perl from my system and the problem remains
> so, of course, you are right.

No worries.
 
> By the way, I have confirmed that the problem does NOT occur on my
> jessie system (perlbase 5.20.2-3+deb8u7). On that system the option
> parsing works according to the documentation.

This seems indeed to be a known regression, cf.
https://bugs.debian.org/855532 
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=114999

Cheers,
gregor

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