Subject: bug#39184: closed (Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#39184: Documentation says "at present")

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 16:55:02 +0000

Your bug report

#39184: Documentation says "at present"

which was filed against the diffutils package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#39184: Documentation says "at present"
From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
To: Roland Illig <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 08:54:15 -0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 2:25 PM Roland Illig <[email-masked]> wrote:
> the documentation for diffutils uses the words "at present", which
> quickly gets wrong and outdated.
>
> https://github.com/Distrotech/diffutils/blame/49e3b25b41c934ca6945d94de98d747fa5cc9922/doc/diff.texi#L801
>
> GNU diff is not really the only program in the world that can generate
> and apply unified diffs.
>
> Please fix the documentation to avoid the words "at present", "last
> year" and similar terms.

Thanks for the report. Fixed via the attached.

Subject: Documentation says "at present"
From: Roland Illig <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 23:24:39 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi,

the documentation for diffutils uses the words "at present", which
quickly gets wrong and outdated.

https://github.com/Distrotech/diffutils/blame/49e3b25b41c934ca6945d94de98d747fa5cc9922/doc/diff.texi#L801

GNU diff is not really the only program in the world that can generate
and apply unified diffs.

Please fix the documentation to avoid the words "at present", "last
year" and similar terms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Relative_time_references

Best,
Roland