From 872c0df857d322f8119c64853d042f17c1913c3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 02:14:06 +0000
Subject: sort: fix --debug marking for -b -k1.x

We were erroneously skipping blanks in the marked comparison
_after_ the key start offset was applied.
* src/sort.c (debug_keys): Don't skip starting blanks
if already handled by begfield().
* tests/misc/sort-debug-keys.sh: Add a test case.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/22155
---
 NEWS | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

(limited to 'NEWS')

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5941e20c2..2731298ea 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   shred again uses defined patterns for all iteration counts.
   [bug introduced in coreutils-5.93]
 
+  sort --debug -b now correctly marks the matching extents for keys
+  that specify an offset for the first field.
+  [bug introduced with the --debug feature in coreutils-8.6]
+
 ** New commands
 
   base32 is added to complement the existing base64 command,
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