Package: notmuch Version: 0.22-1 Severity: wishlist It would be nice if notmuch would allow separation between command-line options and their values so that I could run dump and not get an error. pabs@chianamo ~ $ notmuch dump --gzip --output ~/.../notmuch-tags.gz Option "output" needs a string argument. Unrecognized option: --output pabs@chianamo ~ $ notmuch dump --gzip --output=~/.../notmuch-tags.gz Bad output file ~/.../notmuch-tags.gz I don't want to have to manually type my home dir whenever I dump tags, which I currently have to do since notmuch requires = as a separator. pabs@chianamo ~ $ notmuch dump --gzip --output=/home/pabs/.../notmuch-tags.gz Separation of long options and their values is a standard feature of programs on Debian so it is surprising this doesn't work by default. pabs@chianamo ~ $ ls -s --block-size M ~/.../notmuch-tags.gz XXXM /home/pabs/.../notmuch-tags.gz pabs@chianamo ~ $ ls -s --block-size=M ~/.../notmuch-tags.gz XXXM /home/pabs/.../notmuch-tags.gz -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (900, 'testing-debug'), (900, 'testing'), (860, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (800, 'unstable-debug'), (800, 'unstable'), (790, 'buildd-unstable'), (700, 'experimental-debug'), (700, 'experimental'), (690, 'buildd-experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages notmuch depends on: ii libc6 2.22-9 ii libglib2.0-0 2.48.1-1 ii libgmime-2.6-0 2.6.20-1+b1 ii libnotmuch4 0.22-1 ii libtalloc2 2.1.6-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 Versions of packages notmuch recommends: ii alot 0.3.6-1 ii gnupg-agent 2.1.11-7 pn gpgsm <none> ii notmuch-emacs 0.22-1 ii notmuch-mutt 0.22-1 notmuch suggests no packages. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise