[Pkg-gpm-devel] Bug#288610: gpm: improve command line handling (inconsistent)

[Jari]

Package: gpm
Version: 1.19.6-19
Severity: minor


Gpm accepts options 90 % of the tim in standard format "-OPTION
PARAM", but following options are inconsistent in their usage compared
to other options:

       -A[limit]
       -Rname Causes `gpm' to act as a repeater: any mouse data received while
       -Vverbosity increment

Please improve options handling by allowing same handling for every option.
That is:

	-A [limit]
	-R name
	-V verbosity

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)

Versions of packages gpm depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.4.41       Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                 2.11.2       Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-4        Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  ucf                         1.13         Update Configuration File: preserv

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