Bug#904839: bsdmainutils: cal still highlights though -h option is gone

[Dylan Thurston]

Package: ncal
Followup-For: Bug #904839

This is really a follow-up bug, but the '-h' option is still
documented in the man page (as an option for both cal and ncal).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.7.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL 
set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages ncal depends on:
ii  libc6  2.31-3
ii  libtinfo6  6.2-1

ncal recommends no packages.

ncal suggests no packages.

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Bug#904839: bsdmainutils: cal still highlights though -h option is gone

[Aaron Hall]

Package: bsdmainutils
Version: 9.0.12+nmu1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

The -h option to cal(1) was removed with the rationale (given in
response to bug #867995:

> Yes, but this is by design as the docs say cal is supposed to be
> drop-in compatible to the original cal command.

That's well and good, but then cal should not highlight at all, because
a plain display without other control characters is the traditional
behavior of Unix cal. Because cal still adds highlighting, that
interferes with post-processing its output (which is the why the manpage
says it should be "bit for bit compatible").

Thanks,
Aaron


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.105-aja.1 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages bsdmainutils depends on:
ii  bsdutils 1:2.29.2-1+deb9u1
ii  debianutils  4.8.1.1
ii  libbsd0  0.8.3-1
ii  libc62.24-11+deb9u3
ii  libncurses5  6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2
ii  libtinfo56.0+20161126-1+deb9u2

bsdmainutils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages bsdmainutils suggests:
ii  cpp   4:6.3.0-4
pn  vacation  
ii  wamerican [wordlist]  7.1-1
ii  whois 5.2.17~deb9u1

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.105-aja.1 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages bsdmainutils depends on:
ii  bsdutils 1:2.29.2-1+deb9u1
ii  debianutils  4.8.1.1
ii  libbsd0  0.8.3-1
ii  libc62.24-11+deb9u3
ii  libncurses5  6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2
ii  libtinfo56.0+20161126-1+deb9u2

bsdmainutils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages bsdmainutils suggests:
ii  cpp   4:6.3.0-4
pn  vacation  
ii  wamerican [wordlist]  7.1-1
ii  whois 5.2.17~deb9u1

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