Package: patch Version: 2.5.9-5 Severity: normal Patch suffers from a mis-feature, namely that it creates backup files with 000 perms when the patch creates a new file (and thus there's no original file to backup). It's documented but apparently that behaviour has changed in patch 2.6. http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/patch/patch-2.6.tar.gz
-b or --backup Make backup files. That is, when patching a file, rename or copy the original instead of removing it. When backing up a file that does not exist, an empty, unreadable backup file is created as a placeholder to represent the nonexistent file. See the -V or --version-control option for details about how backup file names are determined. This behaviour leads to uncopyable files which is a pain in particular for quilt (cf #534840) and it would be nice to see a fixed version of patch in sid. Thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages patch depends on: ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries patch recommends no packages. Versions of packages patch suggests: pn diff-doc <none> (no description available) ii ed 1.4-1 The classic UNIX line editor -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
