Subject: bug#25814: [bug-diffutils] bug#25814: bug#25814: Windows same_file macro is not reliable

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 08:30:53 -0800

On 02/21/2017 01:21 AM, Kees Dekker wrote:
> the fix in diff is now very simple

That may be, but it's bad software engineering practice to apply a bunch 
of painful-to-maintain "simple" changes to diffutils and other programs 
when the real problem is elsewhere. Let's fix the real problem. Surely 
it is a simple fix to Gnulib.