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12 ^J
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regarding diffutils: cmp -b prints first byte always as 12 ^J
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: diffutils
Version: 1:3.5-3
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
after upgrading to Stretch, cmp -b output is wrong - if the files are
different, the first different byte is always printed as 12 ^J. This is a
major bug in such a simple utility. cmp -b -l works correctly.
$ echo 1 >one
$ echo 2 >two
$ cmp -b one two
one two differ: byte 1, line 1 is 12 ^J 62 2
$ cmp -b -l one two
1 61 1 62 2
It's OK in Jessie or Wheezy:
$ echo 1 > one
$ echo 2 >two
$ cmp -b one two
one two differ: byte 1, line 1 is 61 1 62 2
$ cmp -b -l one two
1 61 1 62 2
Sometimes, the 2nd byte is messed up too:
# cmp -b /root/random230m.bin /mnt/random230m.bin
/root/random230m.bin /mnt/random230m.bin differ: byte 36882317, line 143981 is
12 ^J 333 M-[
# cmp -b /root/random230m.bin /mnt/random230m.bin
/root/random230m.bin /mnt/random230m.bin differ: byte 85995009, line 336284 is
12 ^J 327 M-W
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-rc5+ (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages diffutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1
diffutils recommends no packages.
Versions of packages diffutils suggests:
pn diffutils-doc <none>
pn wdiff <none>
-- debconf-show failed
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 1:3.7-3
On 7/1/17 23:27, Ondrej Zary wrote:
Package: diffutils
Version: 1:3.5-3
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
after upgrading to Stretch, cmp -b output is wrong - if the files are
different, the first different byte is always printed as 12 ^J. This is a
major bug in such a simple utility. cmp -b -l works correctly.
$ echo 1 >one
$ echo 2 >two
$ cmp -b one two
one two differ: byte 1, line 1 is 12 ^J 62 2
This was fixed in Debian 10 (buster), which is now oldstable.
I'm therefore marking it as fixed in the buster version.
Thanks.
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