check-symbols: Use optparse to display --help

check-symbols

@@ -29,21 +29,55 @@
 # * nm (from binutils)
 
 DISTRO=$(lsb_release -c -s)
-VERSION=$(apt-cache madison "$1" | grep -- "$DISTRO"'/.*Sources$' | awk '{print $3}')
-PACKAGES=$(apt-cache showsrc "$1" | grep-dctrl -s Binary -F Version "$VERSION" | sed 's/Binary\:\ //g;s/\,//g' | sort -u)
 DEBLINE=""
 DEBUG=False
 
-if [[ -z $1 ]]; then
-    echo "Missing argument: source package name."
-    exit 1
+usage() {
+    prog=$(basename $0)
+    cat <<EOF
+Usage: $prog [options] source-package [DEBDIR]
+
+Get a diff of the exported symbols of all .so files in every binary package of
+package the source package. The source package will be found in DEBDIR, defaulting to /var/cache/pbuilder/result.
+
+Options:
+  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
+EOF
+    exit $1
+}
+
+PACKAGE=""
+DEBDIR="/var/cache/pbuilder/result"
+POSITION=0
+while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
+    case "$1" in
+        -h|--help)
+            usage 0
+            ;;
+        -*)
+            usage 1
+            ;;
+        *)
+            if [ $POSITION -eq 0 ]; then
+                PACKAGE="$1"
+            elif [ $POSITION -eq 1 ]; then
+                DEBDIR="$1"
+            else
+                echo "Too many arguments." >&2
+                usage 1
+            fi
+            POSITION=$(($POSITION+1))
+    esac
+    shift
+done
+
+if [ $POSITION -eq 0 ]; then
+    echo "Missing argument: source package name." >&2
+    usage 1
 fi
 
-if [[ -z $2 ]]; then
-    DEBDIR="/var/cache/pbuilder/result"
-else
-    DEBDIR="$2"
-fi
+VERSION=$(apt-cache madison "$PACKAGE" | grep -- "$DISTRO"'/.*Sources$' | awk '{print $3}')
+PACKAGES=$(apt-cache showsrc "$PACKAGE" | grep-dctrl -s Binary -F Version "$VERSION" | sed 's/Binary\:\ //g;s/\,//g' | sort -u)
 
 if [ `id -u` != "0" ]
 then
@@ -67,7 +101,7 @@ do
 done
 
 if [[ -z $DEBLINE ]]; then
-    echo "Package doesn't exist: $1."
+    echo "Package doesn't exist: $PACKAGE."
     exit 1
 fi
 

debian/changelog

@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ ubuntu-dev-tools (0.142) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * mk-sbuild: Support kmod, when checking for overlayfs availability.
   * pbuilder-dist: improve bash_completion for *.dsc files. Thanks Maarten
     Bezemer. (Closes: #670924, LP: #770529)
-  * submittodebian, check-mir: Use optparse to display --help (LP: #988009)
+  * submittodebian, check-mir, check-symbols: Do enough argument parsing to
+    handle --help (LP: #988009)
 
  -- Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org>  Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:38:58 +0200
 

ubuntutools/test/test_help.py

@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ from ubuntutools import subprocess
 from ubuntutools.test import unittest
 
 BLACKLIST = {
-    'check-symbols': 'No Help',
     'grep-merges': 'No Help',
     'pbuilder-dist-simple': 'No Help',
     'setup-packaging-environment': 'Throws Error',