Source: diffutils Version: 1:3.7-5 Severity: wishlist Dear maintainer,
there is a new upstream release available, cf. <https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10031>. The NEWS read as follows: | * Noteworthy changes in release 3.8 (2021-08-01) [stable] | | ** Incompatible changes | | diff no longer treats a closed stdin as representing an absent file | in usage like 'diff --new-file - foo <&-'. This feature was rarely | if ever used and was not portable to POSIX platforms that reopen | stdin on exec, such as SELinux if the process underwent an AT_SECURE | transition, or HP-UX even if not setuid. | [bug#33965 introduced in 2.8] | | ** Bug fixes | | diff and related programs no longer get confused if stdin, stdout, | or stderr are closed. Previously, they sometimes opened files into | file descriptors 0, 1, or 2 and then mistakenly did I/O with them | that was intended for stdin, stdout, or stderr. | [bug#33965 present since "the beginning"] | | cmp, diff and sdiff no longer treat negative command-line | option-arguments as if they were large positive numbers. | [bug#35256 introduced in 2.8] Please update the package when you think it is due time. Cheers, Flo
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