2010/9/8 Sven Joachim <[email protected]>: > 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.
