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Description of problem:
The attached patch adds support for abbreviated long options to
popt-1.7 (possibly other versions as well).

How it works:

1. if there is an exact match for a long option, use it.

2. else check if there are multiple partial matches and complain about
   ambiguous long option.

3. else use long option that matches.

The patch adds the new error symbol POPT_ERROR_AMBIGUOUS (-12)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
N/A

Additional info:

To obtain behaviour similar to GNU getopt(3), it should be considered
to detect short options before looking at long options. That way a
short option would always be preferred if the following conditions
apply (assuming a program getpopt exists that resembles getopt(1)
from util-linux).

Currently:
getpopt -a -ol -llong -- -l
-long --

To be considered:
getpopt -a -ol -llong -- -l
-l --