Re: [bug-diffutils] bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check

[Jim Meyering]

Santiago Vila wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
>> Hi Santiago,
>>
>> A release seems justifiable, and I can make one pretty easily.
>> I'll wait a day or so, in case anyone has a reason to defer.
>
> I'd love to see a beta release, if you still do that sort of thing.
> That would give me some more time to check which ones of the bugs here:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/diffutils
>
> are still unresolved.

I've just published a snapshot.
Hope that's good enough for you.

> BTW: I almost forgot that there is an issue with the manual licensing
> which forced me to remove it from the Debian package: the front-cover
> and back-cover, as they are seen as invariant sections.
>
> I'm not sure if we talked about this before, but a manual which would
> be dual licensed GPL + (GFDL with front-cover and back-cover) would
> solve the issue completely for us. If this is still possible, that
> would be great.

I don't know the status/details of this.
Paul, have you looked at it?