From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1a+) Gecko/20020628 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.
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.
*** Bug 104107 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It's ok with me to add it.
Extras or Core though?
If a2ps is trying to call it, I suppose it should be in Core.