[platform-testers] new snapshot available: coreutils-8.29.57-2ed7c2.tar.xz

[Pádraig Brady]

We plan to release coreutils-8.30 in the coming week
so any testing you can do on various different systems between now and then
would be most welcome.

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You can download the coreutils snapshot in xz format (5.3 MB) from:
  https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz

And verify with gpg or md5sum with:
  https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz.sig
  MD5 (coreutils-ss.tar.xz) = 0e7f0cceb9940143d230c94079c6a754

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To test follow this standard procedure:

  tar -xf coreutils-ss.tar.xz
  cd coreutils-8.29.57-2ed7c2/
  ./configure && make check VERBOSE=yes

Failures are reported and details are in tests/test-suite.log

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Changes in coreutils since v8.29 are summarized at
https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS
and all commits grouped by author are as follows:

Adam Borowski (1):
      cp: add --reflink=never to force standard copy mode

Assaf Gordon (3):
      maint: refactor unsetenv call in env
      env: add -v/--debug option
      env: add -S/--split-string option

Bernhard Voelker (2):
      maint: adjust email address of Keith Thompson in THANKS.in
      tests: initialize fail=0 to avoid "unary operator expected" errors

Bjarni Ingi Gislason (1):
      doc: formatting fixes in "du.x" and "rm.x"

Brent Petit (1):
      stat,tail: add support for the EXFS file system

Carlos Santos (1):
      maint: fix -Werror=suggest-attribute=malloc in expr.c

Eric Blake (1):
      doc: retroactively document -e/-u addition in NEWS

Jim Meyering (1):
      maint: do not depend directly on gnulib's now-unused ftello module

Kaxandra Labat (1):
      ls: ignore case when coloring file extensions

Michael Orlitzky (2):
      doc: clarify chown/chgrp --dereference defaults
      doc: warn about following symlinks recursively in chown/chgrp

Paul Eggert (17):
      tr: add -A, for compatibility with AIX tr
      mv: -n overrides -u
      cp: remove ASSIGN_BASENAME_STRDUPA
      mv: improve -n atomicity
      mv: fewer syscalls for ‘mv a b’
      mv: clarify ‘mv -n A A’ change
      stat: work around IBM xlC bug
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      ls: -A now overrides -a
      doc: Clarify octal bits in permissions
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      maint: remove strpbrk module
      maint: port to GCC 8
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      who: simplify port to GCC 8
      doc: port man pages to doclifter
      doc: port test.1 to doclifter

Pádraig Brady (24):
      maint: post-release administrivia
      maint: update all copyright year number ranges
      tests: avoid false failure with xargs on AIX
      doc: use consistent example format in manual
      cp: set appropriate default permissions for special files
      ls: increase the allowed abmon width from 5 to 12
      tests: avoid a recent syntax-check failure
      doc: timeout --help: mention 0 DURATION disables timeout
      doc: retroactively adjust info about tail and closed output
      build: make GCC 8 adjustments more portable
      doc: improve formatting of nl --help
      maint: make chmod/chgrp/chown leak free under valgrind
      cp: ensure --remove-destination doesn't traverse symlinks
      cp: fix symlink checks when overwriting files
      cp: with --force; replace self referential symlinks
      tests: fix periodic false failure in month alignment
      cp: preserve existing permissions with --no-preserve=mode
      wc: optimize processing of ASCII in multi byte locales
      md5sum,b2sum,sha*sum: support -z,--zero option
      rm: add --preserve-root=all to protect mounts
      tests: provide an option to relax the need for gdb
      maint: avoid false positive in src/fs-magic-compare
      maint: sync longlong.h from gmp repo
      maint: update gnulib to latest

Roland Hieber (1):
      doc: fix two typos in github templates

Tobias Stoeckmann (1):
      cut: improve large file support on 32 bit


thanks!
Pádraig