> | If you ask the authors they will tell you that the info manual now
> | reads like this:
> |
> | To ignore insertions and deletions of lines that match a `grep'-style
> | regular expression, use the `--ignore-matching-lines=REGEXP' (`-I
> | REGEXP') option.
> |
> | so I will consider this "documented enough" in diffutils 3.1.
>
> Please include this in the manual page; to manetion grep, as mentioned
> in original bug report.
Sorry but no. You are looking for an excuse to not read the manual.
> In Debian Linux, the info pages are not considered the primary
> source of infomation.
I don't know where did you got that idea, but for GNU packages I would
consider it fundamentally flawed. This is what Debian policy says:
12.4. Preferred documentation formats
-------------------------------------
The unification of Debian documentation is being carried out via HTML.
If your package comes with extensive documentation in a markup format
that can be converted to various other formats you should if possible
ship HTML versions in a binary package, in the directory
`/usr/share/doc/<appropriate-package>' or its subdirectories.[1]
If you don't like the info system to read documentation, that's ok,
but in the end, for GNU packages, the info manual and the HTML manual
have essentially the same content, as both are derived from the
texinfo source.
So yes, for GNU packages, the "main" manual, the one that you can use
as a reference, is the one you can read (not exclusively) in info
format.
Once this is properly documented in the texinfo manual for diffutils 3.1,
if you still don't want to read the manual, I'm very sorry, but it
will be your problem, not mine.
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