Never mind that comment about apt source: turns out I was pulling from
an earlier repository. The ubuntu commit is at
https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bsdmainutils/tree/debian/patches/cal_highlight.diff?h=ubuntu/groovy
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The cal man page says it highlights unless -h is specified, but it turns
out that only applies to ncal, not cal, since -h isn't in the Synopsis
lines for plain cal, and cal -h is an error.
Highlighting was apparently turned off deliberately: see upstream
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.c
No, this is incorrect. called as 'cal' the intention is to be bit
compatible with the original 'cal'. 'ncal' added the highlight option
and as the man-page shows '-h' is only valid when it is called as
'ncal'.
Secondly highlighting when called as 'cal' was a (Debian) bug #9848389
which is referenc
