Processed: Re: Bug#718898: cut no longer works with newline as delimiter

2013-08-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > severity 718898 important Bug #718898 [coreutils] coreutils: cut no longer works with newline as delimiter Severity set to 'important' from 'critical' > reassign 718898 xen-utils-common Bug #718898 [coreutils] coreutils: cut no longer works with n

Bug#718898: cut no longer works with newline as delimiter

2013-08-07 Thread Bob Proulx
severity 718898 important reassign 718898 xen-utils-common thanks The behavior of the upstream GNU cut has changed. It is no longer allows the usage of cutting lines as fields by setting a newline as the delimiter. This has broken /etc/xen/scripts/vif-bridge which uses it in this way. This was

Bug#718898: cut no longer works with newline as delimiter

2013-08-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Pádraig Brady wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Was this change intentional or accidental? > > Intentional. The change in question, to treat each line independently was: > http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=51ce0bf8 > to address: http://bugs.gnu.org/13498 Thanks for the det

Bug#718898: cut no longer works with newline as delimiter

2013-08-06 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 08/06/2013 08:32 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Volker Klasen opened a bug in the Debian bug tracker concerning a > change in behavior in cut. I have CC'd the bug on this message. I > have manually set an appropriate Reply-To header. > > http://bugs.debian.org/718898 > > There has been a lot of i

Bug#718898: cut no longer works with newline as delimiter

2013-08-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Volker Klasen opened a bug in the Debian bug tracker concerning a change in behavior in cut. I have CC'd the bug on this message. I have manually set an appropriate Reply-To header. http://bugs.debian.org/718898 There has been a lot of improvements made to cut. But the issue is this one. In