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[bug-diffutils] Re: Bug#570064: diffutils 2.9 breaks dpkg-dev
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Santiago Vila |
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[bug-diffutils] Re: Bug#570064: diffutils 2.9 breaks dpkg-dev |
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Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:43:54 +0100 (CET) |
Raphael, this is the NEWS entry for the change:
* Diff now simply prints "Files A and B differ" instead of "Binary
files A and B differ". The message is output if either A or B
appears to be a binary file, and the old wording was misleading
because it implied that both files are binary, which is not
necessarily the case.
Apparently, diff will show "Files A and B differ" only when at least
one of them is binary, so the "meaning" is the same as before.
My suggestion to avoid data loss would be something like this:
Files A and B differ and at least one of them is binary.
However, as long as the "meaning" is the same (upstream could confirm this)
even if the message is not changed again, I think it should be quite
easy to adapt dpkg-dev to the new behaviour if it's kept that way.
Let's see what upstream think about this.