package bsdmainutils provides /usr/bin/cal which supports -w according to the man page, but it doesn't

[Tom van Leeuwen]

according to `man cal`, we should be able to use the -w option to print week numbers:
     -w Print the number of the week below each week column.

When you try that, you'll get the following:
tom@laptole:~$ cal -w
Usage: cal [general options] [-hjy] [[month] year]
       cal [general options] [-hj] [-m month] [year]
       ncal [general options] [-bhJjpwySM] [-s country_code] [[month] year]
       ncal [general options] [-bhJeoSM] [year]
General options: [-NC31] [-A months] [-B months]
For debug the highlighting: [-H yyyy-mm-dd] [-d yyyy-mm]

the /usr/bin/cal executable has been provides by package bsdmainutils of which I'm having:
tom@laptole:~$ apt-cache policy bsdmainutils
bsdmainutils:
  Installed: 9.0.5ubuntu1
  Candidate: 9.0.5ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 9.0.5ubuntu1 0
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

tom@laptole:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.10
Release: 14.10
Codename: utopic

[Trev Peterson (trev-advanced-reality)]

I can confirm this. It also doesn't accept the -h option and other ones as well. ncal -h works but cal -h errors. Cal seems pretty broken, lots of open bugs on this for many years but no fixes seem to be coming. Let me know if I can help troubleshoot this further if anyone is interested in fixing this. Thanks,

[Trev Peterson (trev-advanced-reality)]

I see these problems on ubuntu 17.10 with bsdmainutils version 9.0.12+nmu1ubuntu1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.