Bug 68537

Summary: missing dependency: wdiff
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ulrich Drepper <drepper>
Component: a2psAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Description Ulrich Drepper 2002-07-11 00:31:34 UTC 
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Description of problem:
pdiff, part of a2ps, uses wdiff when not used with the -l option.  The wdiff is
no dependency for a2ps, though.  This leads to errors for all uses of pdiff
except when -l is used.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.pdiff /dev/null /dev/null -- -Pdisplay
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  /usr/bin/pdiff: wdiff: command not found


Expected Results:  If wdiff would be available the correct output would be used.

Additional info:

If wdiff cannot be provided (and I know it has some problems) the -l should be
made the default and maybe the -w option should be disabled.
Comment 1 Neal McBurnett 2003-09-09 21:35:22 UTC 
This bug is still a problem in redhat 9 - please change the version number.

debian has a package for wdiff:

 http://packages.debian.org/stable/text/wdiff.html

which patches the tar.gz from gnu.org to keep it from
dumping core at least.

Wouldn't it make sense to add the patched wdiff to diffutils?
It is a nice program.
Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2004-12-10 14:19:35 UTC 
*** Bug 104107 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2004-12-10 21:51:06 UTC 
It's ok with me to add it.
Comment 4 Tim Waugh 2004-12-13 15:44:33 UTC 
Extras or Core though?
Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2004-12-14 01:28:30 UTC 
If a2ps is trying to call it, I suppose it should be in Core.