Bug 355887

Summary:	x11-misc/xclip: running xclip-copyfile with --help results in unexpected output
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Dean Matzkov <Bapabooiee>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	orbea <orbea>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	minor	CC:	dlan, jstein
Priority:	High	Keywords:	NeedPatch
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3188413&group_id=198423&atid=965419
See Also:	https://github.com/astrand/xclip/issues/16
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Dean Matzkov 2011-02-21 18:16:02 UTC

Reporting the bug here since it looks like upstream is mostly-dead.


This is what happens when xclip-copyfile is ran with the --help flag:

$ /usr/bin/xclip-copyfile --help

tar: Usage\: dirname NAME\n or\: dirname OPTION\nOutput NAME with its last non-slash component and trailing slashes removed;\nif NAME contains no /'s, output `.' (meaning the current directory).\n\n --help display this help and exit\n --version output version information and exit\n\nExamples\:\n dirname /usr/bin/ Output "/usr".\n dirname stdio.h Output ".".\n\nReport dirname bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org\nGNU coreutils home page\: <http\://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>\nGeneral help using GNU software\: <http\://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>\nFor complete documentation, run\: info coreutils 'dirname invocation': Cannot chdir: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now


The same thing applies to xclip-cutfile and xclip-pastefile.

Comment 1 Dean Matzkov 2011-02-21 18:56:27 UTC

While this isn't _technically_ a bug (as the parameters are simply passed to tar), most users would probably expect to see the applications usage, rather than being bombarded with that jarring text.

Comment 2 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2020-11-26 22:41:09 UTC

Also in https://github.com/astrand/xclip/issues/16

Comment 3 orbea 2023-08-29 15:54:49 UTC

As already discussed here and in the upstream issue this is not really a bug and unless a fix for this is accepted upstream I do not think it would be wise to potentially change compatible behavior in Gentoo only. I made a comment on the upstream issue to see if they are interested at all.