#420204 at: batch no longer accepts parameters

Package:
at
Source:
at
Description:
Delayed job execution and batch processing
Submitter:
Christian Garbs
Date:
2010-02-14 18:03:05 UTC
Severity:
normal
#420204#5
Date:
2007-04-20 18:35:55 UTC
From:
To:
After updating to Etch, some of my scripts stopped working because the
batch command no longer understands the -f parameter.  In Sarge this
parameter did work (I did not see a note about this during the update,
shouldn't there be a message for apt-listchanges to inform about
incompatible changes?).

Looking through the at manpage, I found the description of batch's
parameters in the SYNOPSIS to be correct:

SYNOPSIS
       at [-V] [-q queue] [-f file] [-mldbv] TIME
       at -c job [job...]
       atq [-V] [-q queue]
       atrm [-V] job [job...]
       batch


But in the DESCRIPTION batch is listed as still having the -f
parameter:

DESCRIPTION
[...]
       For both at and batch, commands are read from standard input or the
       file specified with the -f option and executed.


The manpage should not contradict itself.
(Why not bringing the -f parameter back?)