Bug 582837

Summary: request for upgrade to diffutils-3.0
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jim Meyering <meyering>
Component: diffutilsAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Jim Meyering 2010-04-15 21:48:03 UTC
Description of problem: out of date: diffutils-2.9 was released on Feb 11
2.8.1 is very old.  I plan to release diffutils-3.0 soon.
Please plan to package it at least for rawhide.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.8.1


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Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2010-04-15 22:05:09 UTC
Yes.  The main obstacle is that the i18n patch needs porting, and that this would be a fair amount of work.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 566482 ***