On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 03:20:19PM -0400, Brian Feldman wrote: > > Our GNU patch has gone stale in the tree. Anyone want to upgrade it to 2.5? > > If not, I'll do it myself eventually. Patch 2.1 which we have now is broken > > for > > certain diffs (recently tried with gimp 1.1.5-1.1.6 diffs), while 2.5 works > > fine. > > GNU patch 2.5 already in contrib/patch but there was strong opposition in > core team to make it default when I try to bring it in, please search for > related discussion in FreeBSD mailing lists.
Time to reopen that can of worms. It is _not_ appropriate for FreeBSD to be using obsolete versions of anything, especially when found that the old versions are buggy. > > -- > Andrey A. Chernov > http://nagual.pp.ru/~ache/ > MTH/SH/HE S-- W-- N+ PEC>+ D A a++ C G>+ QH+(++) 666+>++ Y > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.freebsd.org _ |___)___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
