[ATTN: maintainer] moreutils updates available + sponge proposed for POSIX

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis@SystematicSW.ab.ca
Mon Jun 2 16:45:47 GMT 2025


Noticed sponge is being proposed for POSIX:

	https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1927 Add sponge utility

and is in moreutils, for which more recent updates are available:

News
version 0.70
moreutils 0.70 released with these changes
• vidir: Improve zero padding to support larger directories, and also avoid 
unncessary padding.
• zrun: Add support for zstd compression
• ts: Do not accept extra args and always read from stdin
Posted 5 months and 24 days ago

version 0.69
moreutils 0.69 released with these changes
• Makefile: Warn users of pkgx.dev about their poor life choices.
Posted 1 year and 3 months ago

version 0.68
moreutils 0.68 released with these changes
• popen: Use pclose, fixing compile warning.
• vidir: Zero pad line numbers to work better when used with a small tab size 
such as 2.
Posted 1 year and 6 months ago

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte                   Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter  not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retrancher  but when there is no more to cut
                                 -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry



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