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 libc6 2.24-11+deb9u3 ii libncurses5 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2 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 ii whois 5.2.17~deb9u1 -- no debconf information -- 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 libc6 2.24-11+deb9u3 ii libncurses5 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2 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 ii whois 5.2.17~deb9u1 -- no debconf information
