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diff --git a/ChangeLog-2008 b/ChangeLog-2008 deleted file mode 100644 index dde945b9c..000000000 --- a/ChangeLog-2008 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,379 +0,0 @@ -2008-12-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> - - NB: ChangeLog files are no longer manually maintained. - See HACKING for details. - -2008-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> - - We *do* need two different version files. - One for tarball-only, the other to be updated any time we - get a new value of $(VERSION). - * Makefile.am (dist-hook): Create .tarball-version in dist tarball. - * GNUmakefile (_curr-ver): Make git-version-gen use it. - * .gitignore: Ignore it. - - Fix a typo in description of size suffixes: s/GB/G/. - * doc/coreutils.texi (od invocation, head invocation, tail invocation): - Spotted by Bert Wesarg. - - * NEWS [6.9.90]: Mention the added feature that head, od, split and - tail now accept the standard size suffixes (kB, M, MB, G, GB, and - so on for T, P, Y, Z, and Y) on arguments to selected options. - -2008-02-06 Steven Schubiger <schubiger@gmail.com> - - mkdir, split: write --verbose output to stdout, not stderr. - * src/mkdir.c (verbose_output): New function. - (announce_mkdir): Use it. - * src/split.c (usage): Update. - * src/split.c (cwrite): Write to stdout, not stderr. - * doc/coreutils.texi (split invocation): Remove the mention - of --verbose output being printed to stderr. - * tests/mkdir/p-v: Redirect stdout, not stderr. - * tests/misc/split-a: Likewise. - * NEWS: Mention this change. - * TODO: Remove this item. - -2008-02-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> - - * Makefile.maint (announcement): Remove stale comment. - -2008-02-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> - - Clarify a comment. - * tests/sort/Test.pm: Replace a vague ChangeLog reference with a URL. - -2008-01-31 Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> - - Improve wording of date and time man page. - * man/date.x: Improve compact description of the --date=STRING. - * man/touch.x: Likewise. - Suggested by A. Costa. - -2008-01-31 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> - - Remove alignment constraint from the sha*_read_ctx functions. - * lib/sha256.c (set_uint32): New function. - (sha256_read_ctx, sha224_read_ctx): Use it. - * lib/sha512.c (set_uint64): New function. - (sha512_read_ctx, sha384_read_ctx): Use it. - * lib/sha256.h: Remove warning about alignment constraint. - * lib/sha512.h: Likewise. - Prompted by similar changes in gnulib's sha1 and md[45] modules. - - Adapt to new version of vc-list-files. - * tests/check.mk (vc_exe_in_TESTS): Adapt to new constraint - that vc-list-files be run only from $(top_srcdir). - - Pull vc-list-files from gnulib. - * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add vc-list-files. - * build-aux/vc-list-files: Remove file. - - Improve the cp/parent-perm test. - * tests/cp/parent-perm: Also check that perms of existing dest - dirs are changed to match those of corresponding src dir - -2008-01-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> - - Don't modify argv in dd due to ',' in arguments. - * src/dd.c: Include quotearg.h. - (operand_matches): New function. - (parse_symbols, operand_is): Use it. - (parse_symbols): 1st arg is now const pointer. Don't modify it. - msgid arg is now just the message, not a format. - (scanargs): Add some 'const's to check for problems like the above. - -2008-01-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> - - * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Adjust remove.c offsets, again. - - Now that system.h defines is_empty_dir, include "openat.h". - * src/system.h: Include "openat.h" here, ... - * src/chcon.c: ... not here. - * src/chmod.c: Likewise. - * src/chown-core.c: Likewise. - * src/remove.c: Likewise. - - * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Adjust remove.c offsets. - - Improve "rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty" - * src/rmdir.c (remove_parents, main): With --ignore-fail-on-non-empty, - suppress a diagnostic also for other errno values, which can arise - with read-only media or when the parent directory has the immutable - attribute (set via chattr +i). - (errno_may_be_empty, ignorable_failure): New functions. - * src/remove.c (is_empty_dir): Move function to ... - * src/system.h (is_empty_dir): ...here, and make it inline. - Suggested by Josselin Mouette in <http://bugs.debian.org/350541> - via Bob Proulx. - * NEWS: Mention the improvement. - -2008-01-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> - - Don't modify argv in dd. - * src/dd.c (operand_is): New function. - (scanargs): Use it so that we don't need to modify argv, as a nicety. - Problem reported by Adam Goode in - <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-01/msg00264.html>. - -2008-01-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> - - * Makefile.am (BUILT_SOURCES): Ensure that .version exists. - Reported by Bob Proulx. - -2008-01-29 Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> - - Improve the man pages of --date=STRING for 'date' and 'touch'. - * man/date.x: Add a compact description of the --date=STRING. - * man/touch.x: Likewise. - Reported by A. Costa in http://bugs.debian.org/363011 - -2008-01-29 Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - - Improve the description of when dd outputs its final statistics. - * doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Say that dd prints stats - upon normal termination and upon SIGINT. - -2008-01-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> - - Avoid "make distcheck" failure: newly-created man/*.1 files not removed - * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add .version. - (.version): New rule. - (dist-hook): Don't create $(distdir)/.version here, now that it's - being distributed. - * man/Makefile.am (common_dep): Use ../.version, not ../VERSION. - (../VERSION): Remove rule. - * GNUmakefile (dummy): Create .version, not VERSION. - Add an extra "...:= $(shell..." statement to ensure that - .version exists even when the preceding code is not run. - * .gitignore: Remove both .version and VERSION. - - ls: don't segfault on files in /proc with an old libselinux - * src/ls.c (gobble_file): Work around a bug in libselinux1-2.0.15 - whereby getfilecon returns 0 yet sets the context to NULL. - Reported by Jan Moringen via Michael Stone in - http://bugs.debian.org/463043 - * tests/ls/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add proc-selinux-segfault. - * tests/ls/proc-selinux-segfault: Test for the above fix. - * NEWS: Mention the fix. - -2008-01-26 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> - - Work around Darwin9's set-GID-like group ownership inheritance. - This avoids another spurious Mac OS 10.5.1 (Darwin 9.1) test failure. - * tests/cp/preserve-gid: Accept a group ID of 0, as well. - Reported by Elias Pipping. - - Emit "info coreutils 'PROG invocation'" into the man page, - rather than just "info PROG". The latter would often fail - or simply display the man page. - * man/help2man: Change the template. - Prompted by http://bugs.debian.org/399684 - - chcon: correct description of --no-dereference (-h) option. - * src/chcon.c (usage): Remove invalid reference to lchown. - Reported by Göran Uddeborg. - - Ensure that each version string change propagates to man pages. - * man/Makefile.am (common_dep): Don't depend on configure.ac for - version changes. Instead, depend on ../VERSION. - (../VERSION): New rule. - * Makefile.am (DISTCLEANFILES): Define. - * GNUmakefile: Update ./VERSION. - * .gitignore: List VERSION. - Reported by Sven Joachim. - - Avoid cp/preserve-gid test failure on Mac OS 10.5.1 (Darwin 9.1) - * tests/cp/preserve-gid: Set group as well as owner on ".". - Reported by Elias Pipping. - - Improve a warning about non-portable "mv" usage. - * doc/coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Adjust the warning: moving a - dir-symlink-specified-with-a-trailing-slash works in a surprising - manner only on some systems. Reported by Tomas Pospisek in - http://bugs.debian.org/343652. - -2008-01-26 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> - - * src/dircolors.hin (TERM): Add jfbterm. - -2008-01-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> - - Clean up build-related rules. - * Makefile.cfg (gnulib_dir): Update comment. - * Makefile.maint (announcement) [cl_date, utc_date]: Don't set - now-unused variables. - - * TODO: Update the note on getgrouplist. - -2008-01-23 Zvi Har'El <rl@math.technion.ac.il> - - Add a ";", so "make install" works with --enable-install-program=su. - * src/Makefile.am (install_su): Add a semicolon. (tiny change) - -2008-01-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> - - Avoid misinterpreting mgetgroups failure in running root-only tests. - * src/setuidgid.c (main): Don't misinterpret as size_t an error - return from mgetgroups. Reported by Theodoros V. Kalamatianos. - - * README: Remove/convert a few stray mentions of CVS. - -2008-01-22 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> - - Require automake-1.10.1, for its support of dist-lzma. - * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Require 1.10.1. - - Version 6.10. - - * NEWS: Record release date. - - * README-hacking: Update to reflect existence of automake-1.10.1. - -2008-01-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> - - Update README. - * README: Remove a note about failing tests on SunOS 4. - On Mac OS 10.5.1 (Darwin 9.1), you'll need --disable-acl. - (Running tests as root): Recommend using "check-root", not "check". - -2008-01-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> - - Do not define-away __attribute__ when __STRICT_ANSI__ is set. - * src/system.h (__attribute__): Remove the __STRICT_ANSI__ disjunct. - It has been unnecessary since approximately gcc-2.6, and now, leaving - it would cause gcc -Werror -ansi to fail to compile csplit.c. - * gl/lib/randread.c (__attribute__): Likewise. - -2008-01-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> - - * NEWS: Mention the configure.ac fix. - - * TODO: Add an introduction. - Remove a few entries. Update a few others. - -2008-01-13 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> - - Remove each output redirection target before writing to it. - * tests/check.mk (vc_exe_in_TESTS): Remove t1 and t2 _first_, - in case they exist beforehand and are not writable. - * build-aux/check.mk (am__check_pre): Likewise, remove $@-t. - -2008-01-13 Elias Pipping <pipping@gentoo.org> - - * configure.ac: Correct a non-portable use of sed. - -2008-01-12 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> - - * src/dircolors.hin (image formats): Add the .svg suffix. - -2008-01-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> - - Use new version of announce-gen. - * Makefile.maint (announcement): Remove use of the - --gnulib-snapshot-time-stamp option. - Use new --gnulib-version option instead. - (gnulib-version): New variable. - -2008-01-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> - - * Version 6.9.92. - - * tests/tr/Test.pm: Prefer en_US.ISO-8859-1 to en_US.iso88591. - Suggestions from James Youngman and Pádraig Brady in - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/12218/focus=12227 - -2008-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> - - * README-hacking: Add Git to the list of required tools. - -2008-01-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> - - Fix a minor race condition when using cp -p --parents. - * src/cp.c (make_dir_parents_private): If stat fails on the parent - directory, do not add it to the list of directories whose modes - might need fixing later. Also, do not bother invoking 'stat' - unless the stat results might be needed later. - -2008-01-08 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> - - parent-perm: avoid a bizarre test failure. - * tests/cp/parent-perm: Accommodate the situation in which - chmod ("dir", 02755) returns 0 yet fails to set the S_ISGID bit. - - Remove uses of now-undefined Makefile variable. - * src/Makefile.am (dir_LDADD, ls_LDADD, vdir_LDADD): Remove uses - of no-longer-defined variable, $(LIB_ACL_TRIVIAL). - -2008-01-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> - - cp (but not copy.c): plug a small leak. - * src/cp.c (do_copy) [--parents]: Free the attribute list. - - Make a racy test failure less likely to happen. - * tests/misc/tty-eof: Uncomment a debug "warn". - This change happens to make this test far less likely to fail. - With that statement commented out, this test would fail about - 20% of the time on my desktop. Now, it's gone 100 iterations - in a row with no failure. - - * NEWS: Mention the cp bug fix. - -2008-01-07 Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> - - cp --parents: don't use uninitialized memory when restoring permissions - * src/cp.c (make_dir_parents_private): Always stat each source - directory, in case its permissions are required in re_protect, - when setting permissions of a just-created destination directory. - -2008-01-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> - - cp: add a test for today's bug fix. - * tests/cp/parent-perm: New script. Test today's change. - Based on reproducer from Jan Blunck. - * tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add parent-perm. - -2008-01-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> - - touch: add a test for today's change. - * tests/touch/now-owned-by-other: New script. Test today's change. - * tests/touch/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add now-owned-by-other. - * tests/Makefile.am (all_t): Add td, a new root-only test. - (td): New target. - * NEWS: Mention the improvement. - -2008-01-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> - - touch: ignore "-d now" option, when appropriate - * src/touch.c (main): Treat "-d now" as if it were absent, if - neither -a nor -m is specified. Problem reported by Dan Jacobson in: - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-01/msg00010.html - -2008-01-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> - - Avoid tr case-conversion failure in some locales. - * src/tr.c (skip_construct): New function. - (main): When processing a pair of case-converting classes, don't - iterate through the elements of each [:upper:] or [:lower:] class. - Reported by Gerald Pfeifer in - <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/12218>. - * tests/tr/Test.pm [tolower-F]: New test for the above fix. - [upcase-xtra, dncase-xtra]: New tests, for a related code path. - * NEWS: Mention the tr bug fix. - -2008-01-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> - - * .gitignore: Ignore lzma-compressed files, too. - - Update copyright date. - * tests/sample-test: Likewise. - * doc/coreutils.texi: Likewise. - - - ----- - - Copyright (C) 2008-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. - - Copying and distribution of this file, with or without - modification, are permitted provided the copyright notice - and this notice are preserved. |