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

[Peter Pentchev]

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'.
> 
> 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/
> 
> 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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