Subject: bug#12445: ls --color does not color symlinks when not resolving them

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 11:03:05 +0200

Bernhard Voelker wrote:

> On 09/16/2012 05:46 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>
>> +++ b/tests/misc/ls-misc.pl
>> @@ -263,6 +263,21 @@ my @Tests =
>>        {POST => sub {unlink 's' or die "s: $!\n";
>>                      restore_ls_colors; }},
>>       ],
>> +     # The code related to the above fixes introduced a regression,
>> +     # that was fixed after coreutils-8.19.
>
> What did you want to say by this?

I understood it as:

    The patch associated with the above test case introduced a
    regression, which was fixed after coreutils-8.19.