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regarding coreutils: tac manpage should refer to rev
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Package: coreutils
Version: 7.4-2
Severity: normal


Since tac and rev both reverse files, but in different senses, I
suggest that the tac manpage should refer to rev.  (Also vice-versa,
but I'll suggest that in a different bug).  I propose the attached patch.

            - Jim Van Zandt



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 
'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii  libacl1                       2.2.48-1   Access control list shared library
ii  libattr1                      1:2.4.44-1 Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-5   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.88-1   SELinux runtime shared libraries

coreutils recommends no packages.

coreutils suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information
--- man/tac.x.orig      2010-02-06 20:59:17.000000000 -0500
+++ man/tac.x   2010-02-06 21:05:07.000000000 -0500
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@
 tac \- concatenate and print files in reverse
 [DESCRIPTION]
 .\" Add any additional description here
+[SEE ALSO]
+\fBrev\fP(1).

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Version: 8.5-1

This bug [1] has been fixed upstream [2] since version 8.5, and hence in
Debian since version 8.5-1.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/568708
[2] 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=543696a9af2d25bec0708b6b790102c01910b5ff

-- 
BenoƮt Knecht


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