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Re: coreutils-5.2.1 'tr' bug


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: coreutils-5.2.1 'tr' bug
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:40:23 +0100

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
...
>> FYI, that bug was fixed in July of 2004.  The fix appeared in
>> coreutils-5.3.0, released over two years ago.  People really shouldn't
>> be using such an old version of coreutils these days.
>
> That's true from your perspective. But a distributor's perspective is more
> like this: coreutils-5.3.0 is not on ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/.

A distributor not aware of coreutils' 5.9x branch is in the wrong business.

> In this
> directory, version 5.2.1 is the newest stable release before the start of
> the 5.9X series, that had its first "stable" release (6.3) just 4 months ago.

That's obviously not true.
There have been six stable 5.9x releases (5.92 - 5.97),
the first of which was nearly 14 months ago.

[ I suppose you looked at the NEWS file from the trunk.
  It doesn't list 5.9x release dates from after the branch point.

I maintain the position that no distributor should still
be packaging coreutils-5.2.1 without a _lot_ of patches.
In the NEWS file alone, over 1000 lines have been added
since that release.




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