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and subject line Re: Bug#833226: bsdmainutils: cal fails to accept formerly
supported `-h` option
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regarding bsdmainutils: cal fails to accept formerly supported `-h` option
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Package: bsdmainutils
Version: 9.0.10
Severity: normal
In versions up through Jessie, `cal` supported a `-h` option to turn
off highlighting of the current day.
In Stretch, `cal -h` results in a help message.
Because there are likely many scripts that depend on `-h` to suppress
highlighting, removal of this longstanding option should not be done
lightly.
If it is to be removed, another method of suppressing highlighting
should be made available.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages bsdmainutils depends on:
ii bsdutils 1:2.28-6
ii debianutils 4.8
ii libbsd0 0.8.3-1
ii libc6 2.23-4
ii libncurses5 6.0+20160625-1
ii libtinfo5 6.0+20160625-1
bsdmainutils recommends no packages.
Versions of packages bsdmainutils suggests:
ii cpp 4:5.3.1-3
pn vacation <none>
ii wamerican [wordlist] 7.1-1
ii whois 5.2.12
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 08:36:05PM -0700, John Lawless wrote:
> In versions up through Jessie, `cal` supported a `-h` option to turn
> off highlighting of the current day.
>
> In Stretch, `cal -h` results in a help message.
>
> Because there are likely many scripts that depend on `-h` to suppress
> highlighting, removal of this longstanding option should not be done
> lightly.
>
> If it is to be removed, another method of suppressing highlighting
> should be made available.
There is. For almost all practical purposes please use "ncal -b" instead of
"cal". That'll give you all of ncal's options but produces the output as known
from cal.
Michael
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