File help-option.dpatch.diff of Package xindy
--- xindy-2.4~pre1.orig/debian/patches/help-option.dpatch
+++ xindy-2.4~pre1/debian/patches/help-option.dpatch
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+#! /bin/sh /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch-run
+## help-option.dpatch by Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
+##
+## DP: The commandline option --help of xindy and texindy prints the help
+## DP: message to stderr.
+
+@DPATCH@
+diff --git a/user-commands/texindy b/user-commands/texindy
+index e29e4e1..06dff2b 100755
+--- a/user-commands/texindy
++++ b/user-commands/texindy
+@@ -322,9 +322,9 @@ use Getopt::Long qw(:config bundling);
+
+ sub usage ( ;$ )
+ {
+- my $exit_code = shift;
+- $exit_code += 0; # turn undef into 0
+- print STDERR <<_EOT_
++ my $signal_error = int shift;
++ my $output_handle = $signal_error ? *STDERR{IO} : *STDOUT{IO};
++ print $output_handle <<_EOT_
+
+ usage: $cmd [-V?h] [-qv] [-iglr] [-d magic] [-o outfile.ind] [-t log] \\
+ [-L lang] [-C codepage] [-M module] [-I input] [idx0 idx1 ...]
+@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ GNU-STYLE LONG OPTIONS FOR SHORT OPTIONS:
+
+ _EOT_
+ ;
+- exit ($exit_code);
++ exit ($signal_error ? 1 : 0);
+ }
+
+ our ($output_version, $quiet, $verbose, $stdin, @debug,
+diff --git a/user-commands/xindy.in b/user-commands/xindy.in
+index cfd399b..11c0009 100644
+--- a/user-commands/xindy.in
++++ b/user-commands/xindy.in
+@@ -335,9 +335,9 @@ use File::Spec;
+
+ sub usage ( ;$ )
+ {
+- my $exit_code = shift;
+- $exit_code += 0; # turn undef into 0
+- print STDERR <<_EOT_
++ my $signal_error = int shift;
++ my $output_handle = $signal_error ? *STDERR{IO} : *STDOUT{IO};
++ print $output_handle <<_EOT_
+
+ usage: $cmd [-V?h] [-qv] [-d magic] [-o outfile.ind] [-t log] \\
+ [-L lang] [-C codepage] [-M module] [-I input] \\
+@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ GNU-STYLE LONG OPTIONS FOR SHORT OPTIONS:
+
+ _EOT_
+ ;
+- exit ($exit_code);
++ exit ($signal_error ? 1 : 0);
+ }
+
+ our ($quiet, $verbose, %debug,