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Bug#: 177676
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Reporter: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
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emerge.info emerge --info text/plain Duncan 2007-05-08 17:45 0000 4.12 KB Details
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Description:   Opened: 2007-05-08 17:41 0000 
diffutils-2.8.7-r1 installs several manpages, cmp, diff3, etc, but not the diff
manpage.  man-pages-2.46, unlike 2.44, does not install the old 1998 era GNU
diff manpage, so when one runs "man diff", one gets the waaayyy too general and
all but worthless section 1p IEEE/Open Group programmer's guide diff manpage.

Either diffutils should install the manpage, or man-pages should continue to
install the GNU version, it would appear the former if the same approach is
taken here as with coreutils (see bug #105188 and #158985), which would
presumably get us a newer than 1998 version as well.  Still, for general usage
anyway, 1998 GNU version's definitely better than the IEEE version!

Package versions mentioned above and I just resynced and remerged both, just in
case there had been a no-bump update, so emerge --info isn't likely to be
necessary.  Never-the-less, I'll attach it.

Reproducible: Always

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------- Comment #1 From Duncan 2007-05-08 17:45:37 0000 ------- 
Created an attachment (id=118598) [details]
emerge --info

------- Comment #2 From SpanKY 2007-06-11 05:13:52 0000 ------- 
i'm going to wait for coreutils-6.9 to go stable so we can stabilize the newer
man-pages as well

------- Comment #3 From SpanKY 2007-06-13 23:03:31 0000 ------- 
fixed with diffutils-2.8.7-r2
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