FS#52887 - Pacman doesn't recognise '-c' or '--changelog' as valid flags

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Deactivated account (TechnicalTotoro) - Tuesday, 07 February 2017, 23:00 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 08 February 2017, 20:16 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I have found that with an up-to-date system (Pacman v5.0.1 and libalpm v10.0.1) pacman does not recognise the '-c' option nor the '--changelog' one which are documented in the manpage. I am just presented with an error such as this one:

error: invalid option '--changelog'

This is rather annoying.
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Wednesday, 08 February 2017, 20:16 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 08 February 2017, 02:09 GMT
What command are you running?
Comment by Deactivated account (TechnicalTotoro) - Wednesday, 08 February 2017, 16:36 GMT
Well, I have tried running both things like:

pacman -c firefox

And:

pacman --changelog firefox

But none seem to work, am I doing something wrong?
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 08 February 2017, 20:16 GMT
From man pacman:

QUERY OPTIONS (APPLY TO -Q)
-c, --changelog
View the ChangeLog of a package if it exists.


So "pacman -Qc firefox". But almost no packages have changelogs on any distribution using pacman.

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