Bug#570064: diffutils 2.9 breaks dpkg-dev

2010-02-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Jim Meyering wrote: That wording would be an improvement from the perspective of conveying more information. However, also changing the suffix (before, we changed the prefix) would be disruptive to those who matched against / differ$/. Though note that all POSIX

Bug#570064: diffutils 2.9 breaks dpkg-dev

2010-02-18 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Jim Meyering wrote: I don't have a strong preference. Do any of you? I agree with Raphael that keeping the old string would probably be the best solution, but that's just a preference, not necessarily strong :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#570064: diffutils 2.9 breaks dpkg-dev

2010-02-18 Thread Jim Meyering
FYI, here's what I expect to push. I'll add a test case, too, eventually. From 48228e93a472613705dba6c520c7f47fc78756a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:59:29 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] revert 2002 change that removed Binary from files A

Bug#570064: diffutils 2.9 breaks dpkg-dev

2010-02-17 Thread Jim Meyering
Santiago Vila wrote: Raphael, this is the NEWS entry for the change: * Diff now simply prints Files A and B differ instead of Binary files A and B differ. The message is output if either A or B appears to be a binary file, and the old wording was misleading because it implied that

Bug#570064: diffutils 2.9 breaks dpkg-dev

2010-02-16 Thread Santiago Vila
Raphael, this is the NEWS entry for the change: * Diff now simply prints Files A and B differ instead of Binary files A and B differ. The message is output if either A or B appears to be a binary file, and the old wording was misleading because it implied that both files are binary, which