#860996 uuid does not support nor --help nor --version

Package:
uuid
Source:
ossp-uuid
Description:
Universally Unique Identifier Command-Line Tool
Submitter:
George Shuklin
Date:
2024-09-05 13:39:04 UTC
Severity:
minor
Tags:
#860996#5
Date:
2017-04-23 11:49:32 UTC
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To:
Every utility should support --help (-h) and --version parameters. uuid itility
use -v in a very novel way (asking for uuids version, not reporting own
version), and there is no way to see help or version of utility.
#860996#14
Date:
2024-09-05 13:34:06 UTC
From:
To:
Control: tags -1 + wontfix
nah
$ uuid --help
uuid: invalid option -- '-'
uuid:ERROR: invalid option '-'
usage: uuid [-v version] [-m] [-n count] [-1] [-F format] [-o filename] [namespace name]
usage: uuid -d [-F format] [-o filename] [uuid]
$ dpkg -l uuid
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version       Architecture Description
+++-==============-=============-============-===============================================
ii  uuid           1.6.2-1.5+b11 amd64        Universally Unique Identifier Command-Line Tool

This is clearly an upstream matter and as the upstream my opinion is "no".
For any number of reasons you can imagine.