GNU bug report logs - #39769
diff man page subjects are gone in apropos(1)

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Package: diffutils;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 16:06:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: bug-diffutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: diff man page subjects are gone in apropos(1)
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 23:02:10 +0800

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
This bug report was last modified 5 years and 64 days ago.

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