[arch-dev-public] [signoff] diffutils 2.9-1

[Ronald van Haren]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Upstream update:
>
> * Noteworthy changes in release 2.9 (2010-02-11) [stable]
>
> ** New features
>
>  New diff option --suppress-blank-empty.
>
>  Bring back support for `diff -NUM', where NUM is a number,
>  even when conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001.  This change reverts to
>  the behavior of GNU diff 2.7 and earlier.  This is a change only
>  when conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001; there is no effect when
>  conforming to older POSIX versions.
>
>  This change is in response to decisions taken in the January 2005
>  Austin Group standardization meeting.  For more details, please see
>  "Utility Syntax Guidelines" in the Minutes of the January 2005
>  Meeting <http://www.opengroup.org/austin/docs/austin_239.html>.
>
>  sdiff now understands '1' and '2' as synonyms for 'l' and 'r'.
>
> ** Changes in behavior
>
>  sdiff and diff3 now invoke diff, not $(bindir)/diff
>
> ** Administrivia
>
>  New discussion and bug-reporting address: bug-diffutils at gnu.org
>
>  updated gnulib support
>
>
> Signoff both,
> Allan
>

signoff both.

Ronald