Package: less Version: 458-2 Followup-For: Bug #59568 I recently ran into this same bug. In my case, it caused a lot of confusion because a coworker developed a domain-specific "diff" script that invoked "less -F". On his machine, (Fedora), the script was showing differences, while on my Debian system, no differences were displayed.
We tracked the problem down to the -F option to less, and then wondered at the difference in the same version of less on our two systems. A bit of investigation later revealed the following patch which Fedora carries that fixes the -F option to behave better. I would love to see this patch accepted upstream (and carried by Debian in the meantime): http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/less.git/plain/less-444-Foption.v2.patch?id=47da4db53ff5f00cfa893e05c9995959b8491242 -Carl -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages less depends on: ii debianutils 4.4 ii libc6 2.19-10 ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140712-2 less recommends no packages. less suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
