Subject: bug#39769: closed (Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#39769: diff man page subjects are gone in apropos(1))

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 04:58:02 +0000

Your bug report

#39769: diff man page subjects are gone in apropos(1)

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

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Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#39769: diff man page subjects are gone in apropos(1)
From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 21:56:52 -0700
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 8:06 AM 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Because of non-standard formatting, the man page subjects are gone in apropos(1).
>
> $ apropos diff|grep ^diff
> diff (1)             - (unknown subject)
> diff (1posix)        - compare two files
> diff3 (1)            - (unknown subject)
> diffpp (1)           - pretty-print diff outputs with GNU enscript
> difftime (3)         - calculate time difference

Thank you for reporting that!
Pretty sure it's fixed via the attached:

Subject: diff man page subjects are gone in apropos(1)
From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 23:02:10 +0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Because of non-standard formatting, the man page subjects are gone in apropos(1).

$ apropos diff|grep ^diff
diff (1)             - (unknown subject)
diff (1posix)        - compare two files
diff3 (1)            - (unknown subject)
diffpp (1)           - pretty-print diff outputs with GNU enscript
difftime (3)         - calculate time difference

$ aptitude show diffutils
Package: diffutils
Version: 1:3.7-3