Bug#246491: diff: --dry-run does not check backup file names (fwd)

[Santiago Vila]

Hello.

Received this from the debian bug system:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Francesco Potorti` <address@hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:41:02 +0200
Subject: Bug#246491: diff: --dry-run does not check backup file names

Package: diff
Version: 2.8.1-6
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/diff

When using -B, diff may give an error at backup time because the file
cannot be created.  This happened to me because the file was not in the
current directory, so I should have used -Y instead.

Anyway, that error was not caught by the previous --dry-run that I had
tried.  When running with --dry-run, diff should probably check that it
will be possible to create the requested backup files.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26
Locale: LANG=C, address@hidden (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)

Versions of packages diff depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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