bug#5987: ready for 8.5?

[Jim Meyering]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> In view of the pending release, how about this NEWS fixup?
>
> commit 7dc398a30f9edee4af9d0676d7c682db0f83fa8d
> Author: Pádraig Brady <address@hidden>
> Date:   Wed Apr 21 07:50:39 2010 +0100
>
>     maint: update a couple of NEWS items for the pending release
>
>     * NEWS: Mention that cp and mv from the previous release did
>     not support preserving extended attributes (fixed in e489fd04).
>     Improve the grammar for the "cp capabilities" item.
>
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 32ea392..c27419c 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -4,7 +4,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- 
> outline -*-
>
>  ** Bug fixes
>
> -  cp now preserves "capabilities" also when preserving file ownership.
> +  cp and mv once again support preserving extended attributes.
> +  [bug introduced in coreutils-8.4]
> +
> +  cp now preserves "capabilities" when also preserving file ownership.

Good point.  Thanks!