Re: [bug-diffutils] bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check

[Jim Meyering]

Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Sat, 28 May 2011, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
>
>> Hi Paul.
>>
>> I've seen this issue again now using diff 3.0 from Debian sid (see the
>> attached log file output.
>>
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> diffutils 3.0 was released 2010-05-03, and the patch by Paul is dated
> 2010-08-12 (i.e. later), so it should not be a surprise that the bug
> is still there.
>
> A problem similar to this one has been reported here:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/633978
>
> Should I try to backport the patch to diffutils 3.0 in Debian,
> or maybe there will be a new stable release sometime soon?

Hi Santiago,

A release seems justifiable, and I can make one pretty easily.
I'll wait a day or so, in case anyone has a reason to defer.