[platform-testers] new snapshot available: coreutils-8.28.61-70c84

[Pádraig Brady]

We plan to release coreutils-8.29 in the next few days,
so any testing you can do on various different systems between now and then
would be most welcome.

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You can download the coreutils snapshot in xz format (5.2 MB) from:
  https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz

And verify with gpg or md5sum with:
  https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz.sig
  MD5 (coreutils-ss.tar.xz) = fecfcefd7c393bd3ee1691c183ff5c84

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To test follow this standard procedure:

  tar -xf coreutils-ss.tar.xz
  cd coreutils-8.28.61-70c84/
  ./configure && make check VERBOSE=yes

Failures are reported and details are in tests/test-suite.log

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Changes in coreutils since v8.28 are summarized at
https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS
and all commits grouped by author are as follows:

Assaf Gordon (3):
      expr: add detailed syntax error messages
      stat: output default formats for --terse in usage
      doc: add github issue/pull-request templates

Bernhard Voelker (9):
      ptx: avoid infloop due to zero-length matches with -S regex
      doc: fix "Up" field of realpath usage examples
      maint: update gnulib to latest
      maint: include the module year2038 from gnulib
      timeout: also support short -v option
      all: use consistent diagnostics for unknown long options
      tests: verify usage vs. getopt
      maint: adjust for the renamed nstrfime gnulib module
      doc: mention which privileges are needed to chmod

Jean Delvare (1):
      tests: make ls/block-size more readable

Jim Meyering (3):
      build: ls.c: apply _GL_ATTRIBUTE_PURE to more functions
      maint: shorten https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/... links
      maint: make hook script reject "/archive/html" in lists.gnu.org URLS

Kamil Dudka (1):
      doc: fix default QUOTING_STYLE for %N format of stat(1)

Michael Stone (1):
      doc: mention QUOTING_STYLE env var in ls man page

Paul Eggert (4):
      copy: check for vulnerable target dirs
      all: prefer HTTPS in URLs
      maint: copy bootstrap from Gnulib
      copy: revert recent patch for vulnerable dirs

Pádraig Brady (36):
      maint: post-release administrivia
      shred: reinstate --remove file name length obfuscation
      maint: fix new syntax check failures from copy restrictions
      maint: fix new syntax-check failures from HTTPS adjustments
      tests: avoid a false failure in expr test with UTF8
      tests: fix test hang on case insenitive file systems
      maint: remove a duplicate entry from THANKS
      build: reinstate distribution of man pages
      timeout: fix a small race that would ignore command exit
      stty: fix processing of options when -F is specified
      b2sum: fix crash with --check and truncated input
      maint: apply suggested cleanup to recent stty.c change
      dd: fix nocache regions passed to posix_fadvise()
      tests: avoid false failure when O_DIRECT isn't supported
      df: fix hang with fifo argument
      maint: ensure https:// URLs are used in --help and man pages
      tail: seek to the end of block devices
      timeout: add --verbose to diagnose timeouts
      dd: support iflag=direct with arbitrary sized files
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      test: fix issues with tests/cp/preserve-mode.sh
      readlink: remove superfluous comma from usage output
      doc: clarify that cp --force may recreate files
      doc: shred: change 'truncate' to the more descriptive 'deallocate'
      doc: clarify numeric setuid handling in chmod man page
      doc: reorganize ls -k and --time-style help
      build: avoid build failure without sys/mtio.h
      tail: fix tailing non seekable files on certain systems
      tests: fix false failure in new dd/nocache_eof test
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      build: avoid a signed overflow warning in ptx
      tests: fix recent regressions with dash
      doc: remove older ChangeLog items
      maint: add doc/coverage to .gitignore
      maint: remove reference to excluded changelog item

Thomas Deutschmann (1):
      tests: avoid false failure with inaccessible mount points

Thomas Jarosch (1):
      timeout: fix regression when invoked with blocked SIGCHLD

Vincent Lefevre (1):
      doc: reference statfs(2) in the stat(1) man page

thanks!
Pádraig