On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 02:33:30PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > >Most obsessive/pedantic/picky PR of the year goes to me, with: > > > >The man page for diff3(1) refers to 'info diff' instead of > >'info diff3' > > > > > >>How-To-Repeat: > > > >% man diff3 > > > >Compare the similarity of the end of this page with the end of the > >'man diff' page. > > > >Both refer to 'info diff' for more information, but if you compare > >the results of 'info diff' and 'info diff3' you'll clearly see that > >the man page for diff3 should be referencing 'info diff3'. > > Agreed. However, this is "contrib" software from an external > source, and we generally prefer to get them patched upstream to > avoid having to maintain local patches. I think this is the project > page: > http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/ > > It's not clear how they prefer to get bug reports, but maybe a post > to their mailing list would help.
Just for the record, I believe that some GNU projects now use the debbugs installation at http://debbugs.gnu.org/ - and from a quick look at http://debbugs.gnu.org/Packages.html it seems that diffutils is indeed among them. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 The rest of this sentence is written in Thailand, on
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