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Re: [ATTN] patch: maintainer, please update to 2.5.9
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:49:01 -0500
- Subject: Re: [ATTN] patch: maintainer, please update to 2.5.9
- References: <d4qve1m4.fsf@blue.sea.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:04:19PM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
>Would the package's maintainer ugrade to 2.5.9. The current does not
>handle correctly patches/files that use CRLF line endings. Trying to
>apply CRLR patch to CRLF file fails (bug in 2.5.8) and worse, causes
>the original file to be converted into LF line endings.
Hmm. Package maintainers for certain should not be distributing files
with CRLF endings. I sincerely hope that your evaluation of "worse" is
related to a package that isn't in the cygwin distribution.
cgf