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Re: coreutils-5.2.1 'tr' bug


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: coreutils-5.2.1 'tr' bug
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:54:54 +0100
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Hi Jim,

> That's already covered by this test, from tests/tr/Tests.pm:
> 
>   ['bs-055', q|'a\055b' def|, "a\055b", 'def', 0],

Ah, cool!

> 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/. 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.
Many Linux distributions have a release frequency of 1 / year or 2 / year,
therefore if they stick only to the stable releases that you put on
ftp.gnu.org, they will continue to distribute coreutils-5.2.1 until this
summer or fall.

Bruno





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