Re: [bug-diffutils] I'd like to release 3.3

[Denis Excoffier]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:37:35PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Denis Excoffier wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > On the 2013-03-22 05:42, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> I want to release diffutils-3.3, primarily to make it so
>> >> the latest release is not susceptible to CVE-2012-3386.
>> >>
>> >> Here's the current state of NEWS:
>> >>
>> >> (...)
>> > Please mention the new --no-dereference option, for which i also suggest to
>> > add a shortopt('K'). Thanks.
>> >
>> > See also 
>> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2009-03/msg00070.html
>> 
>> Thank your for noting that.
>> That definitely should have been mentioned in 3.3's announcement.
>> Unfortunately, I released it a few hours before learning
>> of this omission.
>> 
>> However, we should still fix it in the NEWS file.
>> Care to write the patch?
>> 
I suppose you should prepare a new issue soon and please apply at
least the patch below for Solaris' /bin/sh that does not accept the
'export A=B' syntax (but after that i still have an error in
help-version, not investigated for now).

I still insist for people to have a shortopt for --no-dereference
(any shortopt is okay in the meantime). I typically use this
functionality from the command line, and --no-dereference (however
rather easily to type in) is too long for me. After -P/-H is
introduced, deprecate '-K'.

Regards,

Denis Excoffier.


diff -uNr diffutils-3.3o/tests/Makefile.in diffutils-3.3p/tests/Makefile.in
--- diffutils-3.3o/tests/Makefile.in    2013-03-24 18:55:17.000000000 +0059
+++ diffutils-3.3p/tests/Makefile.in    2013-03-25 08:04:05.877431000 +0059
@@ -1246,8 +1246,7 @@
 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \
   tmp__=$$TMPDIR; test -d "$$tmp__" || tmp__=.;        \
   TMPDIR=$$tmp__; export TMPDIR;               \
-  export                                       \
-  VERSION='$(VERSION)'                         \
+  VERSION='$(VERSION); export VERSION;'                                \
   abs_top_builddir='$(abs_top_builddir)'       \
   abs_top_srcdir='$(abs_top_srcdir)'           \
   abs_srcdir='$(abs_srcdir)'                   \