bug#20277: du wild card not working

[Gert Pellin]

On stack exchange someone reported a bug today, after manually updating 
du -sh * gives errors on all his computers. Is this a bug? On my system 
with coreutils 8.21 it is still working normally.
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best regards
Gert Pellin

ps: the original report: 
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/194906/whats-the-new-wild-card-symbol-for-the-du-command