[Bug 1914555] Re: cal should report today
Akkana Peck
1914555 at bugs.launchpad.net
Tue May 4 18:16:04 UTC 2021
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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