[platform-testers] new snapshot available: coreutils-8.25.120-ca99c

[Pádraig Brady]

We plan to release coreutils-8.26 in about a week, so any testing
you can do on various different systems between now and then
would be most welcome.

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You can download the coreutils snapshot in xz format (5.4 MB) from:
  https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz

And verify with gpg or md5sum with:
  https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz.sig
  MD5 (coreutils-ss.tar.xz) = 8b23df84039d6a48291f7f7b1bf81c2c

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To test follow this standard procedure:

  tar -xf coreutils-ss.tar.xz
  cd coreutils-8.25.120-ca99c/
  ./configure && make check VERBOSE=yes

Failures are reported and details are in tests/test-suite.log

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Changes in coreutils since v8.25 are summarized at
http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS
and all commits grouped by author are as follows:

Antonio Ospite (1):
      dircolors: highlight Motion JPEG multimedia files

Assaf Gordon (6):
      seq: detect and report I/O errors immediately
      tests: sort-debug-warn: add progress information lines
      sort: modify 'leading spaces' debug warning scenarios
      tests: improve recent seq EPIPE test
      maint: refactor common expand(1) and unexpand(1) code
      date: add '--debug' option

Bernhard Voelker (11):
      seq: do not allow 0 as increment value
      seq: do not allow NaN arguments
      tests: let mkdir/p-v.sh fail when compare fails
      maint: fix dependency of man/arch.1
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      maint: pacify GCC 6 with -Wnull-dereference
      maint: add 'returns_' to exclude list in sc_prohibit_and_fail_1
      comm: add --total option
      maint: add build-aux/ar-lib to .gitignore
      maint: fix 'syntax-check' targets for VPATH builds
      doc: clarify that readlink's --quiet option is on by default

Bishop Bettini (1):
      doc: fix typo in stdbuf man page

Daniel Lockyer (1):
      date: free timezone variable to avoid valgrind warning

Eric Blake (2):
      test: Document that -a and -o are undesirable
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest

George Burgess IV (1):
      pinky,who: remove redeclarations of ttyname

Göran Uddeborg (1):
      stty: fix translated --help so the gettext header is not printed

Jim Meyering (19):
      tests: avoid false-failure of split/filter.sh on XFS
      maint: remove gl/lib/reg*.c.diff; no longer needed
      maint: avoid new warning from gcc (GCC) 7.0.0 20160503 (experimental)
      maint: skip a check when en_US.UTF-8 collation rules are broken
      ptx: avoid new warning/error from upcoming gcc-7.x
      tr: move decls "down"
      maint: tr: tweak/make-consistent a pair of loop indices
      dircolors: recognize .zst and .tzst suffixes
      gnulib: update to latest, for getprogname fixes
      who: avoid new warning from upcoming gcc-7
      gnulib: update to latest and adapt printf-quote.sh test
      maint: pr: avoid new GCC 7 warning
      build: add die.h; avoid new warnings from GCC 7
      build: also distribute new file, src/die.h
      maint: we use die; remove now-unnecessary uses of abort
      tests: use "returns_" rather than explicit comparison with "$?"
      tests: use "returns_" rather than explicit comparison with "$?"
      maint: avoid "make distcheck" failure due to excess .deps directories
      build: avoid racy failure of "make -jN install"

KOBAYASHI Takashi (1):
      nl: reset numbering for each section

Kamil Dudka (5):
      install: with -Z, set default SELinux context for created directories
      maint: sort.c: deduplicate code for traversing numbers
      sort: make -h work with -k and blank used as thousands separator
      sort: with -h, disallow thousands separator between number and unit
      ls: allow interruption when reading slow directories

Paul Eggert (12):
      split: fix problems with /dev/zero
      tests: don't wait forever on GNU/Hurd
      doc: document sort -o F F danger
      all: be less strict about usage if POSIX 2008
      date ls pr: fix time zone abbrs on SysV platforms
      maint: work even if argc == INT_MAX
      maint: simplify partial writes etc. in 'yes'
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      sort: port to strict C + valgrind
      cp: use FICLONE instead of BTRFS_IOC_CLONE
      ls: fix %%b format and precompute more
      pr: fix integer overflow in buffer size calcs

Peter Benie (1):
      tests: verify that fts diagnoses readdir() failures

Philipp Thomas (1):
      df: improve performance with many mount points

Pádraig Brady (54):
      maint: post-release administrivia
      build: avoid dynamic linking issue on Solaris sparc
      split: adjust recent --number changes
      stat: report type for "prl_fs" file systems
      tests: fix recent false failure due to a race
      tests: avoid potential overflows with `expr`
      sleep,timeout: support overflowing floating point values
      yes: avoid redundant diagnostics on write error
      stat,tail: add support for Windows Subsystem for Linux
      tests: avoid false failure when df lists no root file system
      stat,tail: add support for the SMB2 remote file system
      dircolors: output colors for any $TERM matching *color*
      doc: clarify sort --key handling of default field separators
      yes: fix copy and paste issue with previous commit
      yes: handle short writes
      all: update gnulib submodule and tests/init.sh to latest
      stty: fix sane setting of susp to ^z on Solaris
      tests: avoid false failure on 32 bit in readdir() test
      doc: make date(1) synopsis consistent with output +FORMAT
      doc: revert recent date(1) synopsis change
      doc: fix ambiguous multiplier info in dd man page
      cp: with --parents --no-preserve=mode don't copy dir perms
      doc: fix typo in date example
      factor: reinstate immediate output with interactive use
      tail: -F now always processes initially untailable files
      rm: disallow --n alias for --no-preserve-root
      all: use die() rather than error(EXIT_FAILURE)
      md5sum,sha*sum: fix --ignore-missing with checksums starting with 00
      dd: warn about counts specified with confusing 0x prefix
      doc: improve the --help description of ls -N
      stat: make --format=%N honor the QUOTING_STYLE env var
      doc: clarify in texinfo that cut doesn't reorder fields
      all: update gnulib submodule to latest
      date: add %q to output the quarter of the year
      maint: refactor printing of backup suffix --help
      maint: misc tweaks to recent changes
      tail: terminate when following pipes and untailable non pipes
      tail: avoid outputting repeated data with remote files
      tail: ensure -f --retry 'missing' handles truncation
      tail: only retry file open if --retry specifed
      all: reduce usage of proper_name_utf8()
      tests: fix false failure on OS X
      tests: fix non portable date in recent test
      cp: improve status message when omitting directories
      b2sum: a new checksum utility with md5sum like interface
      ls: improve alignment of quoted names
      tests: fix recent tail-2 test regressions
      tests: fix false fails due to passing env vars to returns_
      tests: fix false failure with FreeBSD 11 multibyte quoting
      all: update gnulib submodule to latest
      tail: fix checking of remoteness when not using inotify
      split: fix memory corruption during chunk extraction
      tests: fix false failure with ASAN in rm-readdir-fail
      ptx: fix an invalid heap reference with short --width

Rishabh Dave (1):
      maint: simplify handling of backup --suffix in various tools

Vincent Lefevre (1):
      doc: fix the --iso-8601 example in date --help

Yigal Korman (1):
      stat,tail: add support for M1FS


thanks!
Pádraig