Hi Jim, Jim Meyering <[email protected]> writes:
> Yes. It's in the queue, but first I'll make releases for grep and gzip. > sed is also overdue. Any help with triaging things in the bug > lists would be most welcome: > > http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?package=diffutils I went through the open bugs (I skipped the ones already on wishlist) and this is what I've found: * 18641 [diffutils] [PATCH] diff: Add --only=REGEX option to parse only files that match REGEX RFC * 19508 [diffutils] [PATCH] diff: compare major, minor numbers of block/character special files * 19509 [diffutils] [PATCH] diff: treat fifos as identical not blocking issue, patch needs review * 17185 diff --help doesn't mention short forms of some options minor issue, not blocking * 18655 Regression in 3.3 documentation versus 3.2 answered, bug must be closed * 18973 diffutils-3.3 test-mbrtowc3.sh fails on Solaris without European localization not triaged, no access to solaris to try it * 19489 FYI: I've updated copyright dates -- and gnulib not a bug, must be closed * 19825 unified output format, number of consecutive unaffected lines, and POSIX answered, can be closed * 19835 RFC: diff: skip initial columns before comparing RFC with patch not reviewed * 19984 [diffutils] Diff and symlinks commented, can be closed * 20250 [diffutils] diff by size RFC for size only comparison (I would close as NOTFIX) * 20279 [diffutils] With -r, option to avoid duplicate differences due to relative symbolic links RFC * 20794 [diffutils] ignore subdirectory with diff Went unanswered, looks like a RFC for a weird use case * 20929 [diffutils] problem with diff -B and incomplete lines Fixed by: commit d2fd9d4683ef60c259a3b426f71cef1b89ff383d Author: Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Date: Wed Sep 3 15:58:03 2014 -0700 diff: fix bug with diff -B and incomplete lines * 21034 [diffutils] [bug-diffutils] bug#21023: bug#21023: REQUEST: --no-dereference missing from manpage + please make a short option for it RFC, should probably be closed and pointed out that --no-d will work as well * 21579 [diffutils] diffutils 3.3 man page may need update Fixed by: commit 2cd4ff3a5ff52d89b6b992d158f389b757f4faf4 Author: Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Date: Mon Aug 31 23:12:43 2015 -0700 build: correct man-page generation rule * 21665 [diffutils] Use of mmap for large files already answered as WONTFIX, must be closed * 21674 [diffutils] Fix for context-header plain diff patch proposed, changes the format of the header * 21715 [diffutils] feat req: an option to skip directory inode comparison RFC * 22108 [diffutils] diff wrapper script for very large files, low memory duplicate of 21665 * 22245 [diffutils] [[email protected]: Bug* 809007: diffutils: FTBFS: FAIL: test-update-copyright.sh] I had that issue some time ago but it was fixed upstream. I have not bisected * 22507 [diffutils] diffutils releases not a bug, working for the release :) * 22529 [diffutils] cmp man page too sophisticated not a bug * 22535 [diffutils] REQ: regex dialect switching (for -F and -I) RFC, I would close it as a WONTFIX * 22816 [diffutils] cmp --verbose EOF message could be more verbose RFC * 16467 [diffutils] Diffutils 3.3 v. VMS (et al.) could be fixed in gnulib, not a regression anyway Regards, Giuseppe
