col binary removed from util-linux-2.40.2-1

[Mark Geisert]

Hi Matthew,

On 1/29/2025 12:16 AM, Matthew "mirage335" Hines via Cygwin wrote:
> /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

[...helpful evidence elided here...]

> 
> 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?

Evidently just a bug.  In my build tree for the release there are object 
files for the other text-utils programs but not col.o.  How odd.

I'll investigate this and update util-linux in the coming days.
Thanks for the report!

..mark