docs/184791: [patch] man page for 'diff3' references 'info diff' instead of 'info diff3'

[Peter Pentchev]

The following reply was made to PR docs/184791; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Pentchev <roam at ringlet.net>
To: Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com>
Cc: Jamie Landeg Jones <jamie at dyslexicfish.net>, freebsd-doc at FreeBSD.org,
	FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/184791: [patch] man page for 'diff3' references 'info diff'
 instead of 'info diff3'
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:35:12 +0200

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 On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 02:33:30PM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
 > >Most obsessive/pedantic/picky PR of the year goes to me, with:
 > >
 > >The man page for diff3(1) refers to 'info diff' instead of
 > >'info diff3'
 > >
 > >
 > >>How-To-Repeat:
 > >
 > >% man diff3
 > >
 > >Compare the similarity of the end of this page with the end of the
 > >'man diff' page.
 > >
 > >Both refer to 'info diff' for more information, but if you compare
 > >the results of 'info diff' and 'info diff3' you'll clearly see that
 > >the man page for diff3 should be referencing 'info diff3'.
 >=20
 > Agreed.  However, this is "contrib" software from an external
 > source, and we generally prefer to get them patched upstream to
 > avoid having to maintain local patches.  I think this is the project
 > page:
 > http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/
 >=20
 > It's not clear how they prefer to get bug reports, but maybe a post
 > to their mailing list would help.
 
 Just for the record, I believe that some GNU projects now use the
 debbugs installation at http://debbugs.gnu.org/ - and from a quick look
 at http://debbugs.gnu.org/Packages.html it seems that diffutils is
 indeed among them.
 
 G'luck,
 Peter
 
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