Re: Suggest to upgrade some software in base

From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock_at_gmx.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 18:15:39 +0200
On Sunday 27 June 2004 17:40, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 04:54:08PM +0200, Divacky Roman wrote:
> > diff - 2.7 -> 2.8.1
> > Should be painless (I think) and I dont see why should we keep the old
> > version http://www.gnu.org/directory/GNU/diffutils.html
>
> Newer versions of diff change some of the formatting information,
> which can break scripts.

Just as newer scripts might break because they assume diff output from the 
current version. The interesting question would be if this is considered a 
bug by the GNU diff developers.

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