Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any time soon.) Closes: #554509

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/dh_shlibdeps b/dh_shlibdeps
index e5f73cba..91930d74 100755
--- a/dh_shlibdeps
+++ b/dh_shlibdeps
@@ -27,12 +27,6 @@ a list of ELF executables and shared libraries it has found.
 
 =over 4
 
-=item B<-u>I<params>, B<--dpkg-shlibdeps-params=>I<params>
-
-=item B<--> I<params>
-
-Pass "params" to L<dpkg-shlibdeps(1)>.
-
 =item B<-X>I<item>, B<--exclude=>I<item>
 
 Exclude files that contain "item" anywhere in their filename from being
@@ -40,6 +34,15 @@ passed to dpkg-shlibdeps. This will make their dependencies be ignored.
 This may be useful in some situations, but use it with caution. This option
 may be used more than once to exclude more than one thing.
 
+=item B<--> I<params>
+
+Pass "params" to L<dpkg-shlibdeps(1)>.
+
+=item B<-u>I<params>, B<--dpkg-shlibdeps-params=>I<params>
+
+This is another way to pass I<params> to L<dpkg-deb(1)>.
+It is deprecated; use B<--> instead.
+
 =item B<-l>I<directory>[:directory:directory:..]
 
 With recent versions of dpkg-shlibdeps, this option is generally not