new snapshot available: coreutils-7.0.188-0e40e

[Jim Meyering]

Here's a snapshot of the latest from coreutils,
with some new bits pulled in via gnulib, too.

I expect to make one more snapshot in the next 2 days,
and then something we'll call a stable coreutils-7.1 release.

coreutils snapshot:
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz      9.2 MB
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz      4.0 MB
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz.sig
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz.sig
aka
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-7.0.188-0e40e.tar.gz
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-7.0.188-0e40e.tar.xz

Here are summaries since the 7.0.171-0dc44 snapshot.
(note there is also one from a week later, 7.0.178-9825,
but I never announced that one)

Eric Blake (3):
      ln: add details to --help text
      install: compare files in binary mode
      add missing copyright dates

Jim Meyering (8):
      touch: deprecate --file option: equivalent to --reference (-r)
      * tests/test-lib.sh: Use skip_test_... in place of echo...;exit 77.
      ls: clean up after wrapped+colored file names with clear-to-EOL
      du,chgrp,chmod,chown: use FTS_DEFER_STAT
      doc: id: make --help and .man more descriptive
      maint: add copyright notices
      doc: explain how to recover from changes committed to master
      maint: changing NEWS' copyright date must not invalidate checksum

Kamil Dudka (1):
      install: add --compare (-C) option to install file only when necessary

Nix (1):
      tests: avoid skipping stty-* tests

Ondřej Vašík (2):
      nl: correct long-option name for -v in usage
      cp: -a now preserves SELinux context, with reduced diagnostics

Pádraig Brady (2):
      maint: mention how to run a single test in HACKING docs
      seq: Fix equal width calculation when '.' added to last number

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And here are the added/changed lines from NEWS:

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a83ca66..e541829 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@

   Add extended attribute support available on certain filesystems like ext2
   and XFS.
-    cp: Tries to copy xattrs when --preserve=xattr specified
+    cp: Tries to copy xattrs when --preserve=xattr or --preserve=all specified
     mv: Always tries to copy xattrs
     install: Never copies xattrs
...

+  install accepts a new option, --compare (-C): compare each pair of source
+  and destination files, and if the destination has identical content and
+  any specified owner, group, permissions, and possibly SELinux context, then
+  do not modify the destination at all.
...

+  cp -a now correctly tries to preserve SELinux context (announced in 6.9.90),
+  doesn't inform about failure, unlike with --preserve=all
...

+  seq -w now accounts for a decimal point added to the last number
+  to correctly print all numbers to the same width.