bug#7000: sort GNU coreutils 6.9.92.4-f088d-dirty

[Zoltán Krajcsovics]

2010/9/8 Sven Joachim <address@hidden>:
> On 2010-09-08 18:24 +0200, Eric Blake wrote:
>
>> On 09/08/2010 07:34 AM, Zoltán Krajcsovics wrote:
>>> coreutils version (from man page):
>>> GNU coreutils 6.9.92.4-f088d-dirty
>>
>> That seems like a weird version - normally, the only people that
>> should be running a -dirty version are those actually developing from
>> coreutils.git; but since we have long since moved past 6.9, I'm
>> assuming you got your coreutils pre-built as part of a distro.  Rather
>> than relying on a possibly broken man page, what does 'sort --version'
>> state? At any rate, you may want to report the broken man page to your
>> distro, to get them to fix it to report a saner string.
>
> He's running coreutils 6.10, I reported the weird version in the
> manpages back in January 2008š.  Probably it's not important enough for
> distros to fix this.
>
> Sven
>
>
> š http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-01/msg00219.html
>

That is right.