The presumed output of r command it's concise enough to be useful if you maintain many different distributions.

What it's strange is that nobody noticed this before. Anyway i got a fast reply from the kind maintainer:

> Thanks for the report! It's very nice to see a bug reported that is older than 20 years. Fixed in the repository in commit b5f9ae3c.

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