Eric Blake writes: > > On 07/21/2012 12:20 PM, Jean-Pierre Tosoni wrote: > > Hello Maintainer, > >=20 > > I am using join v8.5 from debian squeeze. > >=20 > > > now, the command: > > join -v 2 -1 2 -2 3 a b > > produces > > =3D=3D=3D=3D wrong output =3D=3D=3D=3D > > zzz222 zzz111 keyZ zzz333 > > I tried reproducing this with coreutils 8.17: > > $ cat a b > axx111 keyX axx222 > ayy111 keyY ayy222 > xxx111 xxx222 keyX xxx333 > zzz111 zzz222 keyZ zzz333 > $ join -v2 -1 2 -2 3 a b > keyZ zzz111 zzz222 zzz333 > > but I get the expected order. I don't see a specific mention of a fix > for this in NEWS, so I have to wonder if this might be a bug in a > debian-specific patch. Can you do some more investigating, such as > compiling upstream coreutils to see if the problem still persists for you= > ?
It's not a Debian-specific problem. I can reproduce the bug with unaltered coreutils 8.9. It was apparently fixed by accident as a side effect of some other work on the join program. commit d4db0cb1827730ed5536c12c0ebd024283b3a4db Author: Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> Date: Wed Jan 5 11:52:54 2011 +0000 join: add -o 'auto' to output a constant number of fields per line d4db0cb1827730ed5536c12c0ebd024283b3a4db can be cherry-picked and applied to older coreutils to fix the bug. I tested this with upstream 8.9 and Debian's 8.5, both applied with fuzz but worked correctly. -- Alan Curry
