Debian bug report logs - #1685
dpkg-split --msdos not correct

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From: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>
To: Erick Branderhorst <branderhorst@fgg.eur.nl>, debian-bugs@Pixar.com
Subject: Re: Bug#1685: dpkg-split --msdos not correct

Erick Branderhorst writes ("Bug#1685: dpkg-split --msdos not correct"):
> Command executed:
> # dpkg-split -s emacs-19.29-4.deb --msdos
>                                   ~~~~~~~

This is an error, of course.  Options have to precede non-option
arguments, so what you're asking dpkg-split to do is to split into
files starting `--msdos', eg `--msdos.1of3.deb' or whatever.

However ...

> Transcript:
> Splitting package emacs into 11 parts: 1 mv: unrecognized \
> option `--msdos.1of11.deb'
> Try `mv --help' for more information.

... dpkg-split should have been happy to do that.  The problem is that
there is a bug in the libc.  I first noticed this bug when trying to
use rsh - it would take the option arguments to the remote command and
try to interpret them locally.

`mv' is affected, too:

-chiark:~> mv spong bar
mv: spong: No such file or directory
-chiark:~> mv spong --bar
mv: unrecognized option `--bar'
Try `mv --help' for more information.
-chiark:~> 

This is a really stupid feature of the GNU implementation of getopt,
which we should disable.

I'm reassigning this bug to the libc package.

Ian.

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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.0.5-0

Command executed:
# dpkg-split -s emacs-19.29-4.deb --msdos
                                  ~~~~~~~
Transcript:
Splitting package emacs into 11 parts: 1 mv: unrecognized \
option `--msdos.1of11.deb'
Try `mv --help' for more information.

Command executed:
# dpkg-split --msdos -s emacs-19.29-4.deb
             ~~~~~~~
Transcript:
Splitting package emacs into 11 parts: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 done

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Erick Branderhorst@heel.fgg.eur.nl 00++10-46351542
Department of General Surgery (Intensive Care) University Hospital Rotterdam NL