On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Tong Sun <bts@bts.grml.org> wrote:

>
> When grml-debootstrap parameter handling was first fully implemented, the
> "duplicated" : in getopt definition worked follows.
>

should read "worked *as* follows".

Besides that, Long options may be  abbreviated, as long as the abbreviation
is not ambiguous. Eg. '--k' will be the same as '--keep_src_list', and
'--pac' be '--packages'.