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According to dae3 on 4/1/2009 2:56 PM: > Eric Blake <[email protected]> wrote: > >> [moving to bug-coreutils, which is the address listed in tail --help] > > Thank you for reposting to the appropriate place. Unfortunately, it > seems I'm unable to subscribe to the ML (I'm not receiving the > confirmation email) so I'll reply here on the gnu.utils.bug Usenet > newsgroup. Unfortunately, that breaks threading and makes replying to you very awkward. The newsgroup that you are referring to is merely a gateway around a mailing list, and you picked the wrong gateway. If you want a newsgroup gateway around the coreutils mailing list, you can use http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs among others. Meanwhile, most GNU mailing lists do not require you to be a subscriber to post - there is a human moderator in the loop which allows non-subscribers posts through, so waiting for a confirmation mail is not necessary. > However, I found nothing in ChangeLog{,-200{6,7,8}} that would indicate > a bug fix in that area (BTW, it'd be nice if it could be possible to > download just the big changelog from the ftp.gnu.org site, unless I've > missed it). Not from the ftp.gnu.org site, but it is possible from the version control site. For example, http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/log/. > > I'm a bit wary of installing a different version than what my > distribution provides for such essential software. You are allowed to be skeptical; we cannot force you to upgrade. But you may want to bring it up with your distro that their version is old. You really are missing out on a lot of bug fixes and performance improvements, particularly in such essential software. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknUpfYACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDiaQCdH+DuGrQmiQ03SQq4ntHxurHa g5oAoLDyLvhs00s1d1Aoyq5X1V8sLIw5 =giqs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
