New release of GNU diffutils?

[Ed Avis]

I found what I believe to be a bug in diff, where even with the -w, -B and -b 
options set it still reports a difference for a change that adds a blank line, 
if the file uses DOS style line endings.  To reproduce, unpack the attached 
tarball and 'diff -wBbu a b'.  The expected result is no output (since the 
files differ only in adding a line which contains just \r, which is whitespace, 
which is ignored) but diff 2.8.1 reports a difference.

The test release diffutils-2.8.7 fixes this, I think because of this change 
made on 2002-06-11:

        (analyze_hunk): If -b or -w is also specified, -B now considers
        lines to be empty if they contain only white space.

Will you consider making a new official release of GNU diffutils with this 
change?

-- 
Ed Avis <address@hidden>

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