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Date:      Sun, 27 Jun 2004 18:15:39 +0200
From:      Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>
Subject:   Re: Suggest to upgrade some software in base
Message-ID:  <200406271815.42697.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040627154009.GA23021@saltmine.radix.net>
References:  <20040627145408.GA71410@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> <20040627154009.GA23021@saltmine.radix.net>

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On Sunday 27 June 2004 17:40, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 04:54:08PM +0200, Divacky Roman wrote:
> > diff - 2.7 -> 2.8.1
> > Should be painless (I think) and I dont see why should we keep the old
> > version http://www.gnu.org/directory/GNU/diffutils.html
>
> Newer versions of diff change some of the formatting information,
> which can break scripts.

Just as newer scripts might break because they assume diff output from the=
=20
current version. The interesting question would be if this is considered a=
=20
bug by the GNU diff developers.

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