[bug-diffutils] Re: Bug#570064: diffutils 2.9 breaks dpkg-dev

[Raphael Hertzog]

Hi,

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Jim Meyering wrote:
> That wording would be an improvement from the perspective
> of conveying more information.  However, also changing the suffix
> (before, we changed the prefix) would be disruptive to those who
> matched against / differ$/.  Though note that all POSIX requires
> is that the diagnostic list the two file names and the word "differ".

Good to hear that something is specified, I shall make sure that dpkg-source
also matches on that then.

> > 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.
> 
> I don't have a strong preference.
> Do any of you?

Since dpkg-source used to match only on /^binary/i I don't care.

But if I were you, I would simply keep the same original string to avoid
any further trouble.

Cheers,
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