Package: bsdmainutils Version: 9.0.12+nmu1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
The `cal` binary that is part of `bsdmainutils` has stopped supporting the '-h' flag (documented in the man page as "Turns off highlighting of today"). Specifically, when invoked as `cal -h`, a calendar of the current month (without any highlighting) is not printed. Instead, the "Usage" message describing valid parameters is shown. It is perhaps interesting that it *does* work for `ncal` -- only the `cal` form is affected. It is also interesting that when attempting to use a genuinely invalid flag (like, for example, '-a'), `cal` prints the error "invalid option -- 'a'" before the "Usage" message, but no such error is printed for '-h'. I can confirm that this option did work in Debian jessie, but I don't know when the problem was introduced. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (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 ii debianutils 4.8.1.1 ii libbsd0 0.8.3-1 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1 ii libncurses5 6.0+20161126-1 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20161126-1 bsdmainutils recommends no packages. Versions of packages bsdmainutils suggests: ii cpp 4:6.3.0-4 pn vacation <none> ii wamerican [wordlist] 7.1-1 pn whois <none> -- no debconf information
