[Bug]: `deterministic -h` fails in 5.0.0 and later

[whitty]

What happened?

Our CI builds stopped working yesterday - we use the following to install and check the installation works

bash <(curl -sS https://raw.githubusercontent.com/timo-reymann/deterministic-zip/main/installer)
deterministic-zip -h

deterministic-zip -h is failing now.

OS

Ubuntu

Problem description

deterministic-h is returning a non-zero error code.

Additionally it's not showing the help.

Expected behaviour

in 4.0.1 we see

# deterministic-zip -h  || echo "error $?"
deterministic-zip 4.0.1 (25-06-16_11:49:07) by Timo Reymann
deterministic-zip [-options] [zipfile list]
  -h, --Help                        Show available commands
  -Z, --compression-method string   Set the default compression method.
                                    Currently the main methods supported by zip are store and deflate.
                                    Compression method can be set to:

                                    store       Setting the compression method to store forces to store entries with no compression.
                                                This is generally faster than compressing entries, but results in no space savings.

                                    deflate     This is the default method for zip. If zip determines that storing is better than deflation, the entry will be stored instead.      
                                     (default "deflate")
  -D, --directories                 Include directories in the zip file.
  -x, --exclude strings             Exclude specific file patterns
  -i, --include strings             Include only the specified file pattern
      --log-append                  Append to existing logfile. Default is to overwrite.
      --logfile-path string         Open a logfile at the given path.
                                    By default any existing file at that location is overwritten, but the --log-append option will result in an existing file being opened and the new log information appended to any existing information.
  -q, --quiet                       Quiet mode; eliminate informational messages
  -r, --recurse-paths               Include all files verbose
  -v, --verbose                     Verbose mode or print diagnostic version info.
      --version                     Show version info

Actual behaviour

in 5.0.0 we see (the same result occurs in 5.1.1):

# deterministic-zip -h || echo "error $?"
deterministic-zip 5.0.0 (25-07-30_19:23:07) by Timo Reymann
deterministic-zip [-options] [zipfile list]
error 2

Steps to Reproduce

We're using ubuntu and debian-based docker images in CI - Reproduce this with exactly with

$docker run --rm -it ubuntu:24.04 /bin/bash

# apt update && env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt install curl ca-certificates -y --no-install-recommends
# bash <(curl -sS https://raw.githubusercontent.com/timo-reymann/deterministic-zip/main/installer)
# deterministic-zip -h || echo "FAILED: result=$?"

Important Factoids

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References

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[Waxo]

Hello,

Build were fixed with : #72
The --help works, but not the -h

[timo-reymann]

Fixed the regression, -h works again now + added some more tests for the cmd usage.

[timo-reymann]

Released with 5.1.2: https://github.com/timo-reymann/deterministic-zip/releases/tag/5.1.2

[timo-reymann]

5.1.2 restores all the functionality, including breakages with v5.x until this point.

Apologies for the inconvenience; I added more tests to ensure this does not happen again. In addition I set the broken releases as Pre-release, so don't consider them as stable.

Thanks for your patience and understanding! 🤗