[Bug 1914555] Re: cal should report today

[Akkana Peck]

The cal man page says it highlights unless -h is specified, but it turns
out that only applies to ncal, not cal, since -h isn't in the Synopsis
lines for plain cal, and cal -h is an error.

Highlighting was apparently turned off deliberately: see upstream
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=904839
with this diff:
https://salsa.debian.org/meskes/bsdmainutils/-/blob/master/debian/patches/cal_highlight.diff
but if I apt source ncal on Ubuntu 20.10, the source doesn't have debian/patches/cal_highlight.diff and if I build it with dpkg-buildpackage, it doesn't have the behavior: it highlights even if I make a symlink to it and call it as "cal". I guess the source I get via apt source isn't in sync with the source that's used to build the binaries I get with apt install?

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Title:
  cal should report today

Status in bsdmainutils package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I know about "ncal -b" and I know how to create an alias but I think a
  plain "cal" should highlight today too *especially* if the man page
  only gives an option for turning off highlighting of today (which
  doesn't work because cal is a symlink to ncal).

  The whole "cal is a symlink to ncal" thing is confusing but at least
  cal should highlight today without an option.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
  Package: ncal 12.1.7
  Uname: Linux 5.11.0-051100rc5-lowlatency x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.5
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Thu Feb  4 09:06:25 2021
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-04-04 (1036 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20180105.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: bsdmainutils
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to groovy on 2020-10-23 (103 days ago)

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