Re: new snapshot available: patch-2.7.6.200-be8b

[Eli Schwartz]

On 2/6/25 4:22 PM, Andreas Grünbacher wrote:
> Am So., 3. Nov. 2024 um 16:18 Uhr schrieb Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>:
>> We're approaching a release, so please give this snapshot a spin:
>>
>> GNU patch snapshot:
>>   https://meyering.net/patch/patch-ss.tar.xz      884 KB
>>   https://meyering.net/patch/patch-ss.tar.xz.sig
>>   https://meyering.net/patch/patch-2.7.6.200-be8b.tar.xz
> 
> A new alpha release is available here:
> 
> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/patch/patch-2.7.6.211-86ac.tar.gz
> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/patch/patch-2.7.6.211-86ac.tar.bz2
> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/patch/patch-2.7.6.211-86ac.tar.xz
> 
> Major changes since Jim's snapshot:
> 
> * Reject newlines when creating new files, but not when
>   accessing existing files.
> * Some test suite compatibility fixes.
> 
> Pending any last-minute glitches, this should be the final pre-release 
> snapshot.
> 
> Thanks for all your help!
> 
> Andreas


Thank you! Built and tested on Gentoo Linux:

============================================================================
Testsuite summary for GNU patch 2.7.6.211-86ac
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 47
# PASS:  45
# SKIP:  0
# XFAIL: 2
# FAIL:  0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================


All good. Published as an unkeyworded alpha for manual opt-in testing at
https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-devel/patch/changelog

-- 
Eli Schwartz

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