col binary removed from util-linux-2.40.2-1
Matthew "mirage335" Hines
spamfreemirage335@gmail.com
Wed Jan 29 08:16:36 GMT 2025
/usr/bin/col.exe is apparently missing from the more recent version of the
'util-linux' package 'util-linux-2.40.2-1'
https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86_64%2Futil-linux%2Futil-linux-2.39.3-2&grep=util-linux
https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86_64%2Futil-linux%2Futil-linux-2.40.2-1&grep=util-linux
This showed up as a difference between the binReport for the most recent
build of this 'ubcp' software:
https://github.com/mirage335-colossus/ubiquitous_bash/releases
Binaries (filesystem) in build-12854809622-1 but not in currentRelease
build-13023093291-1:
27
<https://github.com/mirage335-colossus/ubiquitous_bash/actions/runs/13023093291/job/36328737440#step:2:28>/bin/col.exe
28
<https://github.com/mirage335-colossus/ubiquitous_bash/actions/runs/13023093291/job/36328737440#step:2:29>/bin/cygproc2-0.dll
29
<https://github.com/mirage335-colossus/ubiquitous_bash/actions/runs/13023093291/job/36328737440#step:2:30>/bin/cygsodium-23.dll
30
<https://github.com/mirage335-colossus/ubiquitous_bash/actions/runs/13023093291/job/36328737440#step:2:31>/usr/bin/col.exe
31
<https://github.com/mirage335-colossus/ubiquitous_bash/actions/runs/13023093291/job/36328737440#step:2:32>/usr/bin/cygproc2-0.dll
32
<https://github.com/mirage335-colossus/ubiquitous_bash/actions/runs/13023093291/job/36328737440#step:2:33>
/usr/bin/cygsodium-23.dll
The missing packages report for this newer build was just this:
packages (filesystem) in build-12854809622-1 but not in currentRelease
build-13023093291-1:
49
<https://github.com/mirage335-colossus/ubiquitous_bash/actions/runs/13023093291/job/36328737647#step:2:50>libproc2_0
50
<https://github.com/mirage335-colossus/ubiquitous_bash/actions/runs/13023093291/job/36328737647#step:2:51>libsodium-common
51
<https://github.com/mirage335-colossus/ubiquitous_bash/actions/runs/13023093291/job/36328737647#step:2:52>
libsodium23
Looking at the man page for col (Cygwin man page seems identical) it would
seem this is a useful utility:
col(1): filter reverse line feeds from input - Linux man page
<https://linux.die.net/man/1/col>
So uh, why was this removed? Is this just a bug?
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