Bug#206210: diff: does not comply with LSB 1.3 (fwd)

[Santiago Vila]

Hello Jim.

Remember Debian Bug #184886? It's here again, and this time LSB-compliance
seems to be a release goal for the next stable Debian release. What's
the status of LSB-compliance for diffutils in your own sources?

Thanks.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Stefan Gybas <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:35:34 +0200
Subject: #206210: diff: does not comply with LSB 1.3

Package: diff
Version: 2.8.1-2
Severity: serious
Tags: patch

#184886 was filed because diff fails the LSB 1.3 test suite. The bug
report also included a link to a patch
(diffutils-2.8.1-i18n-0.2.patch.gz at
http://www.openi18n.org/subgroups/utildev/dli18npatch2.html), but you
have closed the bug since upstream rejected the patch. The bug report is
now archived and I can't make any changes to it.

Anthony Town's sarge release plan
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200308/msg00010.html)
mentions that policy violations for sarge are defined in his list at
http://people.debian.org/~ajt/sarge_rc_policy.txt. The last point (p) of
this list states that packages must comply with LSB 1.3 so I'm filing a
new bug report.

Stefan