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FS#43063 - [envoy] missing upgrade notification of changed behavior, and manpage/help text out of sync

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Bjørnar Hansen (anachron) - Wednesday, 10 December 2014, 09:01 GMT
Last edited by Daniel Micay (thestinger) - Monday, 15 December 2014, 07:13 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Daniel Micay (thestinger)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

The -k (--clear) option to envoy has been removed in the latest version. However, the previously-named -K (--kill) option is now -k. Where -k before would expire the cached identities, now it will kill the running agent. I saw no notification of this in the upgrade notes.

Furthermore, the output from `envoy -h` and `man envoy` say different things about the -k option.

Additional info:
* package version: 11.1-1
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Closed by  Daniel Micay (thestinger)
Monday, 15 December 2014, 07:13 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Daniel Micay (thestinger) - Monday, 15 December 2014, 07:12 GMT
> The -k (--clear) option to envoy has been removed in the latest version. However, the previously-named -K (--kill) option is now -k. Where -k before would expire the cached identities, now it will kill the running agent. I saw no notification of this in the upgrade notes.

Packages don't provide notifications of every breaking change upstream. Post-install messages are rare and they're primarily used to announce user-facing packaging changes / decisions. It's not going to be used to report changes to the flags of a command-line utility.

> Furthermore, the output from `envoy -h` and `man envoy` say different things about the -k option.

This is an upstream issue, not a packaging one. The discrepancy is fixed in master so it will be included in the next release:

https://github.com/vodik/envoy/commit/5bd415addbb6da836534cef3f60239d3bab9a971

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