Bug 533081

I've checked a fix for this in to the repo.

A work around for this is to use -v which does work.

$ publican -v
version=1.2

The next version will support both --version and -v.

Heck, I didn't even think about trying that.  Thanks.

I had to change the behavior because

publican --version

clashes with

publican create --version 3.0 ...

So in publican 1.3 only 'publican -v' will get the version of publican and '--version' will only be used when creating books.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Cheers, Jeff.

Cool.  I think it was listed in the publican --help menu.

I fixed the help text:

]$ publican --help


Usage:
    publican <global options>

    publican <action> <options>

    Global Options

        --help              Display help message
        --man               Display Full man page
        --help_actions      Display a list of valid actions
        -v                  Display the version of Publican
...

Works for me.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

*** Bug 541450 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Sorry for the duplicate Jeff.

I just downloaded 1.2 this morning.  And I successfully used publican -v.

But the publican --help command still displays the --version usage info.  Is the new -v parameter help info scheduled for the 1.3 release, or was it meant to make it into 1.2?

[jmorgan@jmorgan ~]$ publican -v
version=1.2
[jmorgan@jmorgan ~]$ publican -help


Usage:
    publican <global options>

    publican <action> <options>

    Global Options

        --help      Display help message
        --man               Display Full man page
        --help_actions      Display a list of valid actions
        --version   Display the version of Publican

    Run: 'publican <action> --help' for details on action usage

    Valid actions are:

        build         Transform XML to other formats (pdf, html, html-single)
        clean         Remove all temporary files and directories
        clean_ids     Run clean ids for source XML
        cleanset      Remove local copies remote set books
        create        Create a new Book|Set|Article|brand
        create_brand  Create a new Brand
        help_config   Display help text for the configuration file
        installbrand  Install a brand to the supplied location
        old2new       Create a publican.cfg file for an old Book|Article|Set Makefile
        package       Package a language for shipping
        printtree     Print a tree of the xi:includes
        update_po     Update the PO files
        update_pot    Update the POT files

[jmorgan@jmorgan ~]$

(In reply to comment #3)
> So in publican 1.3 only 'publican -v' will get the version of publican and
> '--version' will only be used when creating books.

Making this clearer.

publican-1.3-0.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/publican-1.3-0.fc12

publican-1.3-0.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/publican-1.3-0.fc11

publican-1.3-0.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

publican-1.3-0.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

*** Bug 564401 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***