Bug#318433: cmp man page says info diff

2006-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre 
On 2005-07-15 23:33:02 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
 The manpage is correct, you should really type info diff and then
 follow the cmp link. If you type info cmp you will see the manpage
 for cmp, not the info pages for cmp.
 
 You need to install the diff-doc package first, but this is suggested
 by the diff package.

This is confusing, IMHO. When the manual is not installed, info should
return an error, not the man page! Otherwise one can really think that
everything has been installed.

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Bug#318433: cmp man page says info diff

2006-03-09 Thread Santiago Vila 
On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

 On 2005-07-15 23:33:02 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
  The manpage is correct, you should really type info diff and then
  follow the cmp link. If you type info cmp you will see the manpage
  for cmp, not the info pages for cmp.
  
  You need to install the diff-doc package first, but this is suggested
  by the diff package.
 
 This is confusing, IMHO. When the manual is not installed, info should
 return an error, not the man page! Otherwise one can really think that
 everything has been installed.

I don't think it is confusing because whenever info shows you a manpage,
the output has the layout of a manpage.

In either case, that's a feature of the info program which has nothing
to do with the diff documentaton. Please talk to the info maintainer.


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Bug#318433: cmp man page says info diff

2005-07-15 Thread Jeff Abrahamson 
Package: diff
Version: 2.8.1-11
Severity: minor


At the end of the cmp man page, one is referred to the info page
and told to type info diff.  But one must type info cmp.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-386
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages diff depends on:
ii  libc6   2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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