Sounds good! Thanks for the explanation and mailing list pointer. :-) On 2/5/08, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tags 380091 wontfix upstream > thanks > > Charles Fry wrote: > > reopen 380091 > > thanks > > > > I still don't buy this. :-) > > > > If -1 syntax is unsupported, that's one thing. It should whine about > > -1. The problem is that -1 works just fine on a single file, but > > breaks when a second file is added, which is just wrong. A valid > > command line syntax should be valid regardless of the number of files > > specified. > > The upstream maintainer has stated that this syntax is obsolescent > behavior and won't be fixed. If you want to tail multiple files with > N then it must be 'tail -nN file1 file2...'. > > Feel free to take the discussion upstream to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for > further discussion but I don't think it is appropriate for Debian to > deviate from upstream on this. > > Bob >
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