Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 12:58:48 -0400 From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Suggest to upgrade some software in base Message-ID: <20040627165848.GA4997@saltmine.radix.net> In-Reply-To: <200406271815.42697.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <20040627145408.GA71410@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> <20040627154009.GA23021@saltmine.radix.net> <200406271815.42697.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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--Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 06:15:39PM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > 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. >=20 > Just as newer scripts might break because they assume diff output from th= e=20 > current version. The interesting question would be if this is considered = a=20 > bug by the GNU diff developers. They seem to have regarded it as a feature (I recalled this one since I modified diffstat a couple of times to work around the changes). --=20 Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFA3vzGtIqByHxlDocRAmoLAJ95LMlZ9uMIXa2nR2iTQeWYjsRsiACdETHu ++zNYaXzUL114VxnEn1M2g0= =qPej -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q--
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