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@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
build failure when building from modified sources, as is common practice
for a patched distribution package.
+ The check in the root-only tests to test whether our dummy user,
+ $NON_ROOT_USERNAME, is able to run binaries from the build directory
+ failed. As a result, these tests have been skipped unnecessarily.
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-8.20]
+
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.20 (2012-10-23) [stable]