Re: [bug-diffutils] bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check

[Jim Meyering]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Santiago Vila wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 May 2011, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Paul.
>>>
>>> I've seen this issue again now using diff 3.0 from Debian sid (see the
>>> attached log file output.
>>>
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>
>> diffutils 3.0 was released 2010-05-03, and the patch by Paul is dated
>> 2010-08-12 (i.e. later), so it should not be a surprise that the bug
>> is still there.
>>
>> A problem similar to this one has been reported here:
>>
>> http://bugs.debian.org/633978
>>
>> Should I try to backport the patch to diffutils 3.0 in Debian,
>> or maybe there will be a new stable release sometime soon?
>
> Hi Santiago,
>
> A release seems justifiable, and I can make one pretty easily.
> I'll wait a day or so, in case anyone has a reason to defer.

FYI, I've just updated to the latest from gnulib
and tested the result on solaris 10 and freebsd 8.2.
So far so good.

>From 1ce0b3604b88aa6ba07b7ff5c0201224465307f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 14:22:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] build: update gnulib submodule to latest

---
 gnulib |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib
index 03f358b..8068b5d 160000
--- a/gnulib
+++ b/gnulib
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 03f358b413de011c710f08b85cdeb0e5b10a3731
+Subproject commit 8068b5d283630a295b2929b9dc6a65916b10f52f
--
1.7.4.4