coreutils - pr: headers ignore the --indent option

[William Shotts]

Binary package hint: coreutils

While the pr command recognizes the --indent (-o) option, page headers are printed without indentation.

Expected results (for example, version 5.2.1 from CentOS 4):
$ ls /usr/bin | pr --indent 5 | head

     2009-02-19 17:43 Page 1

     [
     4odb
     4rdf
     4ss
     4ssd

Actual results (in 8.04/ pr version 6.10):
$ ls /usr/bin | pr --indent 5 | head

2009-02-19 17:45 Page 1

     [
     411toppm
     a2p
     a2ps
     a2ps-lpr-wrapper

[Arnaud Soyez (weboide)]

Confirmed for pr 6.10.

BUT, in the man page, for --indent, it doesn't say it should apply to headers (it doesn't it shouldn't either). So I don't know if that's the intended behaviour or not.

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

Confirmed with git (7.0.188-0e40e-dirty) pr, so marking as triaged.

I have sent an email to the coreutils mailing list about that, and will post a response when I receive it.

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

I proposed a patch for it upstream (attached), and I am waiting to hear back, if at all. This patch applies against the upstream trunk, and I have not verified yet if it would apply cleanly against coreutils 6.10.

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

The patch was adjusted and accepted in coreutils GIT, and should make it into Ubuntu when coreutils 7.1x is sync-ed/merged, perhaps on Karmic.

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

This bug was fixed in the package coreutils - 7.2.1

coreutils (7.2.1) karmic; urgency=low

  * new upstream version (Closes: #517558)
  * [78] fix kfreebsd build problem (Closes: #520368)

coreutils (7.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * remove timeout binary, conflicts with package "timeout" (Closes: #516652)

coreutils (7.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version

coreutils (6.12-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * [77] fall back if utimensat doesn't exist (Closes: #515731)

coreutils (6.12-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version
  * Switch to dpatch