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authorJörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net>2025-03-16 12:48:47 +0100
committerJörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net>2025-03-16 12:48:47 +0100
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Update upstream source from tag 'upstream/4.26'
Update to upstream version '4.26' with Debian dir 21e0b48e0d5c4f3b261c10cb65f0ca9fa00fd732
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@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ Characteristics:
* recognition of the double dash as option list terminator
* offers POSIX strictness where the option list terminates at the first
non-option argument
-* option passthrough
+* option passthrough (conceptuall only works for options taking no argument,
+ or when the argument is joined to a long option with a '=')
* the parse function is one-shot; there is no context object (like popt),
no global state (like getopt) and no ``while`` loop (either of the two others)
* exclusively uses an option table