[ATTN] patch: maintainer, please update to 2.5.9

[Dave Korn]

On 18 February 2008 06:26, Jari Aalto wrote:

>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:04:19PM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
>> 
>>> Would the package's maintainer ugrade to 2.5.9. The current does not
>>> handle correctly patches/files that use CRLF line endings. Trying to
>>> apply CRLR patch to CRLF file fails (bug in 2.5.8) and worse, causes
>>> the original file to be converted into LF line endings.

> It is. The original source package may contain CRLFs, so diff against
> is contains CRLFs as well.
> 
> But when trying to use Cygwin patch to apply the diff during build
> phase: 1) it fails 2) and changes original source code into plain LF;
> not good.

  Did you get the "(Stripping trailing CRs from patch.)" warning?

  Wouldn't the "--binary" option fix that?

    cheers,
      DaveK
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