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REQUEST: --no-dereference missing from manpage + please make a short option for it

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez <rodrivg <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 21023 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#21023: bug#21023: --no-dereference
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 23:14:02 -0700

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On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> wrote:
> reopen 21023
> tags 21023 -notabug
> thanks
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez
> <rodrivg <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 8/31/15, Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> wrote:
>>> tags 21023 notabug
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez
>>> <rodrivg <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> --no-dereference appears in 'diff --help' and 'info diffutils', but
>>>> not in 'man diff'.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the report, but that is unlikely to be a problem with this
>>> upstream diffutils package, since the man page (diff.1) is
>>> automatically generated from the output of diff --help, and the build
>>> machinery to do that has been in place for over a decade. I would
>>> suspect whatever installed your diff man pages or the configuration of
>>> your "man(1)" program -- maybe it is searching in the wrong place.
>>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>> I downloaded diffutils-3.3.tar.xz and in diffutils-3.3/man/diff.1 does
>> not appear the --no-dereference option. I don't know whether it is
>> re-generated at compile or install time... but at the moment that file
>> does not have the said option.
>
> Oh, I see that you are right! So this *is* a bug. Reopening and untagging.
> It looks like I managed to include a stale diff.1 (not including the
> then-new --no-dereference description) in the distribution tarball.
> That makes me think there is or was a missing dependency.  I'll
> investigate and report back here.

Found the bug. Here's the fix:

[0001-build-correct-man-page-generation-rule.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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