Hi, On Thu Jan 29, 2015 at 21:36:11 +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Bill Allombert: > > > > On the other hand, ed scripts are still in use: > > > > - by diff > > > > > > Reasonable people have been using "diff -u" for the last umpteen years. > > > > Why so much drama ? I am sure you did not intend to call me unreasonnable, > > yet > > your post suggests it. > > > No, of course that was not intended. The intent was merely to state that > ed-as-an-interpreter-for-diff is *way* obsolete. > > > It is unfortunate it is not possible for diff to default to -u (or even -c) > > without breaking backward compatility (including POSIX compatility). > > > Right. :-/ >
can we get back to my question of either clarifying 2.5 or updating that text? I find the definition of "What on earth is going on, where is foo?" not very helpful to define if a package is important or not. Cheers, Martin -- Martin Zobel-Helas <[email protected]> Debian System Administrator Debian & GNU/Linux Developer Debian Listmaster http://about.me/zobel Debian Webmaster GPG Fingerprint: 6B18 5642 8E41 EC89 3D5D BDBB 53B1 AC6D B11B 627B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
