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From: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-diffutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: diffutils releases
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 15:23:19 -0600

One of our users is complaining that he needs an updated diffutils. The
change is already in version control.  We can create a patch, but I'm
wondering if you know of any plans to do a new release of diffutils.  The
last release was three years ago.

  -- Bruce Dubbs
     linuxfromscratch.org

Message #8 received at 22507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 22507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#22507: diffutils releases
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 16:15:51 -0800

On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> One of our users is complaining that he needs an updated diffutils. The
> change is already in version control.  We can create a patch, but I'm
> wondering if you know of any plans to do a new release of diffutils.  The
> last release was three years ago.

Hi Bruce,
A diffutils release is definitely overdue, and is on my list.
However, the list of open "issues" is in need of attention:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?package=diffutils

Once that list is in shape and most of its issues have been
addressed, I can make a release in a day or so. Do you know
anyone who would like to invest in the triage work?
If no one steps up, I'll get to it eventually, after making
an imminent grep release, and addressing the sed issues
that are blocking its overdue release.

Message #11 received at 22507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs <at> gmail.com>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: 22507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#22507: diffutils releases
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 19:04:45 -0600

Jim Meyering wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>> One of our users is complaining that he needs an updated diffutils. The
>> change is already in version control.  We can create a patch, but I'm
>> wondering if you know of any plans to do a new release of diffutils.  The
>> last release was three years ago.
>
> Hi Bruce,
> A diffutils release is definitely overdue, and is on my list.
> However, the list of open "issues" is in need of attention:
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?package=diffutils
>
> Once that list is in shape and most of its issues have been
> addressed, I can make a release in a day or so. Do you know
> anyone who would like to invest in the triage work?
> If no one steps up, I'll get to it eventually, after making
> an imminent grep release, and addressing the sed issues
> that are blocking its overdue release.

I will not be able to work in this until we get a new release of LFS out. 
 This will probably take a month.  We'll postpone changes to diff until 
the following release due in September.

Also, I do not have any expertise in non-Linux environments, so patches 
would need to be checked closely.

  -- Bruce

Message #14 received at 22507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 22507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#22507: bug#22507: diffutils releases
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 18:07:11 -0800

On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>> One of our users is complaining that he needs an updated diffutils. The
>> change is already in version control.  We can create a patch, but I'm
>> wondering if you know of any plans to do a new release of diffutils.  The
>> last release was three years ago.
>
> Hi Bruce,
> A diffutils release is definitely overdue, and is on my list.
> However, the list of open "issues" is in need of attention:
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?package=diffutils
>
> Once that list is in shape and most of its issues have been
> addressed, I can make a release in a day or so. Do you know
> anyone who would like to invest in the triage work?

As a start, I've pushed these changes:

        maint: update prereq version of gettext
        * configure.ac: Increase designated gettext version to 0.19.2
        * bootstrap.conf (buildreq): Likewise.
        Remove now-unnecessary code to remove gettext-provided files.

        gnulib: update to latest

  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/diffutils.git/commit/?id=3d8affcc9dd85da0de0121e95a6f932d68feb5fa
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/diffutils.git/commit/?id=3d8affcc9dd85da0de0121e95a6f932d68feb5fa

Message #17 received at 22507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 22507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#22507: bug#22507: bug#22507: diffutils
 releases
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 19:07:36 -0800

On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 6:07 PM, Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>>> One of our users is complaining that he needs an updated diffutils. The
>>> change is already in version control.  We can create a patch, but I'm
>>> wondering if you know of any plans to do a new release of diffutils.  The
>>> last release was three years ago.
>>
>> Hi Bruce,
>> A diffutils release is definitely overdue, and is on my list.
>> However, the list of open "issues" is in need of attention:
>> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?package=diffutils
>>
>> Once that list is in shape and most of its issues have been
>> addressed, I can make a release in a day or so. Do you know
>> anyone who would like to invest in the triage work?
>
> As a start, I've pushed these changes:
>
>         maint: update prereq version of gettext
>         * configure.ac: Increase designated gettext version to 0.19.2
>         * bootstrap.conf (buildreq): Likewise.
>         Remove now-unnecessary code to remove gettext-provided files.
>
>         gnulib: update to latest
>
>   http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/diffutils.git/commit/?id=3d8affcc9dd85da0de0121e95a6f932d68feb5fa
>   http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/diffutils.git/commit/?id=3d8affcc9dd85da0de0121e95a6f932d68feb5fa

Hmm... I see I prematurely pushed a third change that fixes a leak.
I had a FIXME notation in its commit log. It was to remind me to
write a proper ChangeLog-style entry. And once pushed, commit
logs are effectively frozen, by policy. Oh well.

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