Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#64461: strange output of "diff -l -y"

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2023 10:47:35 -0700

Thanks, I installed that, followed by the attached NEWS update. Luckily 
nobody uses diff -ly.

From 8474b6e088627b4b21672374cc63cf2d26cb8eda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2023 10:43:09 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] doc: mention bug#64461 in NEWS

---
 NEWS | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0059415..f93196d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ GNU diffutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
     cp /proc/cmdline t; cmp -s /proc/cmdline t || echo files differ
   [bug present since "the beginning"]
 
+  diff -ly no longer mishandles non-ASCII input
+  [bug#64461 introduced in 2.9]
+
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 3.10 (2023-05-21) [stable]
 
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2.39.2