diffutils (1:3.7-3) unstable; urgency=medium
* Disable tests/colors completely for buster. Closes: #922552.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Mon, 08 Apr 2019 14:04:00 +0200
diffutils (1:3.7-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Increase sleeping time from 1 to 5 seconds in tests/colors for ppc64el.
Closes: #922552 (hopefully).
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Mon, 18 Feb 2019 14:03:30 +0100
diffutils (1:3.7-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release, fixes a memory problem and makes
diff --color compatible with less -R. See NEWS for details.
* Rules-Requires-Root: no
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2019 23:50:00 +0100
diffutils (1:3.6-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* New upstream release.
* Should now build with GCC 7. Closes: #853373.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Fri, 04 Aug 2017 23:20:16 +0200
diffutils (1:3.5-3) unstable; urgency=medium
* Add "sleep 1" to tests/colors after opening a fifo
to avoid a race condition which makes the test to fail
often on the ppc64el architecture. Thanks to Christoph Biedl.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jan 2017 23:55:10 +0100
diffutils (1:3.5-2) unstable; urgency=medium
* Split override_dh_installdocs into -indep and -arch.
* Standards-Version: 3.9.8 (no special changes for this).
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jan 2017 18:25:42 +0100
diffutils (1:3.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release.
* Drop all patches, as none of them is required anymore.
* There are now --color and --palette options. Closes: #396485.
* Exit status of diff for binary files that differ is now 1, not 2,
as mandated by POSIX. Closes: #737180.
* Option --no-dereference is now documented in manpage. Closes: #804544.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Wed, 31 Aug 2016 23:01:00 +0100
diffutils (1:3.3-3) unstable; urgency=medium
* build-aux/update-copyright: Add escapes for braces in perl regex.
New perl 5.22 gives a deprecation warning on stderr, making
test-update-copyright.sh to fail, making the package to FTBFS.
Reported by Chris Lamb. Closes: #809007.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Sat, 26 Dec 2015 19:08:10 +0100
diffutils (1:3.3-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Drop AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no, dh already takes care of that.
* Add debian/upstream/signing-key.asc and improve debian/watch file.
* Apply patch from Paul Eggert. diff now considers file names to be
equal only if they are byte-for-byte equivalent. Closes: #704182.
* Update config.guess and config.sub.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Sun, 27 Sep 2015 22:25:18 +0200
diffutils (1:3.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release.
* Switch from texi2html to makeinfo.
* Source tarball is now in xz format.
* Changed watch file to look for tar.xz sources.
* Added --disable-silent-rules to configure command line.
* Filenames with spaces are now allowed by diff. Closes: #99807.
* Improved description of -I option. Closes: #648411.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Sat, 07 Sep 2013 14:43:28 +0200
diffutils (1:3.2-8) unstable; urgency=low
* Added fix for gnulib compilation against eglibc 2.16, which no longer
declares gets by default. Closes: #693346.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2013 13:28:12 +0100
diffutils (1:3.2-7) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated config.guess and config.sub for arm64. Closes: #688965, #689617.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:12:38 +0200
diffutils (1:3.2-6) unstable; urgency=low
* Forgot to update configure script after modifying m4/float_h.m4.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:30:06 +0200
diffutils (1:3.2-5) unstable; urgency=low
* The previous change didn't work. Fix it the right way: Applied patch
by Bruno Haible (taken from gnulib) fixing powerpc float issues.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:06:46 +0200
diffutils (1:3.2-4) unstable; urgency=medium
* Modified gnulib-tests/Makefile.in to disable test-float,
as it fails on powerpc.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:53:14 +0200
diffutils (1:3.2-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Switch to dh. Should hopefully cross-build from source now.
Closes: #664270.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:20:46 +0200
diffutils (1:3.2-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Dropped dummy "diff" binary package.
* Build with hardened flags. Closes: #653853.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:31:40 +0100
diffutils (1:3.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release.
* Manual license is now GFDL without cover or back texts, which means
we can generate diffutils-doc from this source package again.
* Moved info manual to diffutils. Now diffutils-doc has only HTML.
* However, no need to add Replaces: diffutils-doc (<= 2.8.1-14)
to diffutils, as old diff.info is now diffutils.info.
* Info manual now clearly states that regular expressions are
to be considered `grep'-style. Closes: #287682.
* Fixed cmp manpage where it wrongly suggested "info diff" instead
of "info cmp". Closes: #434214.
* Manpage has improved a bit about format options. Closes: #547691.
* Recursive diff now avoids printing excess slashes in concatenated
file names. Closes: #586301.
* Behaviour of --ignore-all-space has been clarified about what
is to be considered "white space". Closes: #613319.
* Fixed reporting of spurious differences. Closes: #633978.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:47:44 +0200
diffutils (1:3.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Tue, 04 May 2010 20:38:00 +0200
diffutils (1:2.9-4) unstable; urgency=medium
* Applied improved patch from Paul Eggert to fix Bug #577832.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:03:40 +0200
diffutils (1:2.9-3) unstable; urgency=medium
* Fixed regression where newline is added to a line not having a newline.
Reported by Timo Juhani Lindfors. Patch by Jim Meyering. Closes: #577832.
* Switch to 3.0 (quilt) source format, 2 patches.
* Drop unused INSTALL_PROGRAM stuff.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:29:16 +0200
diffutils (1:2.9-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Applied patch from Raphael Hertzog which reverts upstream commit that
changed "Binary files %s and %s differ" into "Files %s and %s differ",
as the new output breaks dpkg-dev.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:39:46 +0100
diffutils (1:2.9-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release, now under GPL version 3 or later.
* There is now a --tab-size option. Closes: #82923.
* Manpage for cmp describes exit status. Closes: #200614.
* Manpage for diff describes exit status. Closes: #228441, #473233.
* The file de.po is now more recent. Closes: #313686.
* Fixed bad sdiff behaviour. Closes: #320222.
* Added wdiff to Suggests. Closes: #324627.
* Fixed cmp behaviour regarding stdout and stderr. Closes: #356083.
* The file ru.po is now more recent. Closes: #409274.
* The file es.po is now more recent. Closes: #418005, #481708.
* The file nl.po is now more recent. Closes: #427370.
* Modified watch file to use http instead of ftp.
* Removed .comment section from executables.
* Added Homepage field to control file.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:49:00 +0100
diffutils (1:2.8.1-18) unstable; urgency=medium
* Modify Replaces field so that it includes old releases of diff in
experimental. Closes: #546364. Note: This will make diff 2.8.7
to "upgrade" to diffutils 2.8.1 if you don't have experimental in
sources.list anymore. Those who really want diffutils 2.8.7 should
keep experimental in sources.list.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:13:04 +0200
diffutils (1:2.8.1-17) unstable; urgency=medium
* Made diff to Pre-Depend on diffutils, as it's proper for the transition
of an essential package. Thanks, Steve Langasek.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 2009 15:32:42 +0200
diffutils (1:2.8.1-16) unstable; urgency=low
* Added epoch to fix upload mistake.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:46:12 +0200
diffutils (2.8.1-15) unstable; urgency=low
* Use the new binary package name in the extended description.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:29:24 +0200
diffutils (2.8.1-14) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated config.guess and config.sub.
* Renamed diff package to diffutils. Closes: #539517.
* Changed section to utils, following the override file.
* Package diff is now a transition package (extra/oldlibs).
* Changed Suggests to diffutils-doc, which is also renamed.
* Do not ignore errors from make distclean (lintian warning).
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:38:30 +0200
diffutils (2.8.1-13) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed --ignore-file-name-case. Patch from Ubuntu. Closes: #300258.
* Modified debian/rules to support cross-build. Closes: #451159.
* Updated config.guess and config.sub.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Fri, 29 May 2009 18:00:00 +0200
diffutils (2.8.1-12) unstable; urgency=low
* Drop outdated preinst.
* Updated config.guess and config.sub.
* Do not override _POSIX2_VERSION anymore. Please fix your scripts.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:04:18 +0200
diffutils (2.8.1-11) unstable; urgency=low
* Changed default value of _POSIX2_VERSION in lib/posixver.c to
199209 to not break backwards compatibility (Closes: #295421).
People should be encouraged to set _POSIX2_VERSION="200112" in
the environment, see what breaks, and fix it, as this change
should be reverted some day after the release of sarge.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:45:18 +0100
diffutils (2.8.1-10) unstable; urgency=low
* Suggests: diff-doc (Closes: #294211).
* Added a debian/watch file (Closes: #294834).
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:06:28 +0100
diffutils (2.8.1-9) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed typo in the copyright file.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:38:26 +0100
diffutils (2.8.1-8) unstable; urgency=low
* Repackaged source without the GFDL-covered manual. Closes: #212523.
* Source is renamed to "diffutils" to make the archive scripts happy.
* Removed texinfo and texi2html from Build-Depends, no longer needed.
* Dropped diff-doc, will be generated from another source.
* Added appropriate --build and --host options to ./configure call in
debian/rules to support cross-compilation. Closes: #283642.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Sat, 8 Jan 2005 19:09:00 +0100
diff (2.8.1-7) unstable; urgency=low
* Moved info manual to diff-doc to address Bug#212523 partially.
* Added appropriate Replaces field to diff-doc.
* Updated config.guess and config.sub.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:01:10 +0100
diff (2.8.1-6) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed sdiff manpage (Closes: #219166).
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Wed, 5 Nov 2003 10:55:58 +0100
diff (2.8.1-5) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated config.guess and config.sub for GNU/KFreeBSD (Closes: #216779).
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:26:22 +0200
diff (2.8.1-4) unstable; urgency=low
* Modified doc/Makefile.in so that it *never* uses install-info.
This is a workaround for an automake bug triggered by the fact that
install-info --version now outputs to stdout (Closes: #213495).
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Wed, 1 Oct 2003 12:35:02 +0200
diff (2.8.1-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Converted Debian changelog to UTF-8.
* Made sdiff -E to work (Closes: #212954).
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Mon, 29 Sep 2003 23:50:50 +0200
diff (2.8.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed doc symlinks.
* Updated DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS handling (added noopt, removed debug).
* Updated config.sub/config.guess for netbsd (Closes: #179701).
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2003 22:17:04 +0200
diff (2.8.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release.
* There are upstream manpages now, generated by help2man.
* The ranges feature by Peter Samuelson is now implemented upstream,
but using a slightly different syntax.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Sat, 20 Jul 2002 12:51:04 +0200
diff (2.7-29) unstable; urgency=low
* The DIFF environment variable is now ignored by sdiff, this feature was
undocumented and will be removed in the next stable diffutils release.
Thanks to Patrik Hägglund (Closes: #66486).
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Tue, 12 Mar 2002 00:40:34 +0100
diff (2.7-28) unstable; urgency=medium
* Fixed yet another bug in the ranges feature, where cmp -i misreports
the byte number where files differ. Thanks to Tim Bell (Closes: #120583).
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Fri, 23 Nov 2001 09:52:08 +0100
diff (2.7-27) unstable; urgency=low
* Added support for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:32:02 +0100
diff (2.7-26) unstable; urgency=medium
* Fixed a bug (introduced in diff_2.7-24) where cmp reports the wrong char
number where files differ. Thanks to Gergely Risko (Closes: #109683).
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:55:33 +0200
diff (2.7-25) unstable; urgency=low
* Rightly refer to the GNU General Public License in the copyright file.
Reported by André Dahlqvist (Closes: #102236).
* Registered HTML docs using doc-base.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Thu, 28 Jun 2001 19:03:34 +0200
diff (2.7-24) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed a bug (introduced in diff_2.7-19) where cmp -l may misreport the
byte number of the differences it finds (Closes: #89755).
Thanks to Vasco Pedro <vp@host.di.uevora.pt>.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Sat, 17 Mar 2001 18:12:04 +0100
diff (2.7-23) unstable; urgency=low
* Changed cmp doc to read 'byte number' instead of offset.
Patch by Peter Muir <muirp@ieels.com>. Closes: #59514.
* Build-Depends: texinfo, since .texi source is now modified.
* Build-Depends-Indep: texi2html, not tetex-bin. Closes: #86580.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Tue, 20 Feb 2001 19:09:17 +0100
diff (2.7-22) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed old doc.Makefile from source, we already provide HTML.
* Updated upstream source URL in copyright file.
* Build-Depends-Indep: tetex-bin.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 18:28:58 +0100
diff (2.7-21) frozen unstable; urgency=high
* Avoid race condition in sdiff.c (edit) when creating temporary file.
Patch by the upstream maintainer, Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>.
Thanks to Colin Phipps <crp22@cam.ac.uk> for the report (Closes: #59730).
* Standards-Version: 3.1.1.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@ctv.es> Sat, 6 May 2000 18:20:38 +0200
diff (2.7-20) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed cmp manpage. Patch by Daniel Martin <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>.
* Switch back to /usr/doc/diff.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@ctv.es> Tue, 21 Sep 1999 12:49:44 +0200
diff (2.7-19) unstable; urgency=low
* cmp: Applied the ranges feature patch by Peter Samuelson (Bug #16735).
* Standards-Version: 3.0.0.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@ctv.es> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 17:37:46 +0200
diff (2.7-18) unstable; urgency=low
* Pre-Depends line not hardcoded anymore (bug #23296).
* Rewritten debian/rules. Now it makes install (bug #23297).
* Converted .texi to HTML, now in a separate package.
* Source: moved manpages to the debian directory.
* Added the file NEWS to the doc directory.
* Updated copyright file.
* Pristine source.
* Added md5sums.
* New maintainer.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@ctv.es> Mon, 28 Sep 1998 20:25:44 +0200
diff (2.7-17) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* applied Raul Miller's patch for stat under ncpfs: fixes 6958
* fixed clean target in rules for multi-architecture builds
-- Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> Sun, 7 Jun 1998 13:53:23 -0400
diff (2.7-16) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* added Pre-Depends: libc6 to the control info: fixes 20717
* removed texinfo.tex from the doc files: fixes 20761
-- Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> Sat, 11 Apr 1998 14:10:06 -0400
diff (2.7-15) unstable; urgency=low
* general clean up of rules file
* removed gzip from copyright file : bug#14433
-- Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> Thu, 13 Nov 1997 13:24:55 -0500
diff (2.7-14) unstable; urgency=high
* build with libc6 : bug #11674
* fixed changelog problems : bug #7555
* changed clean target to distclean : bug #12479
-- Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> Sun, 5 Oct 1997 14:18:57 -0400
diff (2.7-13) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* fixed permissions on doc files
-- Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> Sat, 16 Nov 1996 15:20:02 -0500
diff (2.7-12) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* increased revision number to non-duplicate value
-- Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> Wed, 13 Nov 1996 13:35:39 -0500
diff (2.7-11) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated package to Standards-Version 2.1.0.0.
-- Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> Tue, 10 Sep 1996 23:33:40 -0400
Changes for diff-2.7-10
elf package
* use PRE-DEPENDS and add ESSENTIAL in control file
Changes for diff-2.7-9
elf package
* fixed problem in DEPENDS line of control file
Changes for diff-2.7-8
elf package
* added manpages from the FreeBSD-stable sources on ftp.cdrom.com
Changes for diff-2.7-7
elf package
* added dependency on lib5
These appear to have been written to describe diff-2.6
Changes for diff-2.7-6
* rebuilt for elf
Changes for diff-2.7-5
Priority: Routine
Changes: Added texinfo file and Makefile in /usr/doc/diff
Changes for diff-2.7-4
Priority: Routine
Changes: Made the extended description shorter.
Changes for diff-2.7-3
1. Removed blank line at the end of the extended description.
This may have been causing problems with the debian distribution's
"Packages" file.
Changes for diff-2.7-2
1. Changed debian.control to list me as maintainer.
2. Added extended description to debian.control.
3. Went to Ian Murdock style debian.rules file, similar to my
other packages.
This is the diffutils-2.7 package
Kitted up by Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com>
Taken over from Peter Tobias <tobias@server.et-inf.fho-emden.de>