Subject: [PATCH core-updates-frozen] gnu: diffutils: Update to 3.8.

From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 01:57:15 -0300

‘coreutils-gnulib-tests.patch’ is applied in the gnulib version shipped
with 3.8.

* gnu/packages/base.scm (diffutils): Update to 3.8.
[source]: Remove patch.
---

Hello,

I also verified the GPG signature of the tarball.

 gnu/packages/base.scm | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/base.scm b/gnu/packages/base.scm
index b9841a5cefa6..2c648953ae39 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm
@@ -265,15 +265,14 @@ differences.")
 (define-public diffutils
   (package
    (name "diffutils")
-   (version "3.7")
+   (version "3.8")
    (source (origin
             (method url-fetch)
             (uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/diffutils/diffutils-"
                                 version ".tar.xz"))
             (sha256
              (base32
-              "09isrg0isjinv8c535nxsi1s86wfdfzml80dbw41dj9x3hiad9xk"))
-            (patches (search-patches "coreutils-gnulib-tests.patch"))))
+              "1v4g8gi0lgakqa7iix8s4fq7lq6l92vw3rjd9wfd2rhjng8xggd6"))))
    (build-system gnu-build-system)
    (native-inputs (list perl))
    (synopsis "Comparing and merging files")