bug#39184: closed (Documentation says "at present")

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> Documentation says "at present"
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> Sat, 18 Jan 2020 23:24:39 +0100
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> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.1
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> Hi,
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> the documentation for diffutils uses the words "at present", which
> quickly gets wrong and outdated.
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> https://github.com/Distrotech/diffutils/blame/49e3b25b41c934ca6945d94de98d747fa5cc9922/doc/diff.texi#L801
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> GNU diff is not really the only program in the world that can generate
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> Please fix the documentation to avoid the words "at present", "last
> year" and similar terms.
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Relative_time_references
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> Best,
> Roland
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#39184: Documentation says "at present" Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 08:54:15 -0800

On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 2:25 PM Roland Illig <address@hidden> wrote:
> the documentation for diffutils uses the words "at present", which
> quickly gets wrong and outdated.
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> https://github.com/Distrotech/diffutils/blame/49e3b25b41c934ca6945d94de98d747fa5cc9922/doc/diff.texi#L801
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> GNU diff is not really the only program in the world that can generate
> and apply unified diffs.
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> Please fix the documentation to avoid the words "at present", "last
> year" and similar terms.

Thanks for the report. Fixed via the attached.

diff-at-present.diff
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