dh: Reject unknown parameters that are not dashed command-line parameters intended to be passed on to debhelper commands. Closes: #737635

Note that dh build -n foo bar will pass -nfoobar to the debhelper command.
I did not try to change that, as it would add significant complication.

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 7eb8d616..e0f5deb2 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ debhelper (9.20131228) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     versioned per policy. Closes: #676777
   * dh_makeshlibs: Defer propigating dpkg-gensymbols error until
     all packages have been processed. Closes: #736640
+  * dh: Reject unknown parameters that are not dashed command-line
+    parameters intended to be passed on to debhelper commands.
+    Closes: #737635
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 25 Jan 2014 15:49:45 -0400
 
diff --git a/dh b/dh
index faa82b96..f3bd3213 100755
--- a/dh
+++ b/dh
@@ -587,6 +587,9 @@ while (@ARGV_orig) {
 			$options[$#options].=$opt;
 		}
 	}
+	else {
+		error "Unknown parameter: $opt";
+	}
 }
 
 # Figure out at what point in the sequence to start for each package.