Re: [Quilt-dev] quilt mail broken with sed 3.02

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Wednesday 01 February 2006 04:32, John Vandenberg wrote:
> afaik quilt has not had a hard dependency on coreutils, except that
> mail uses GNU date and uniq features.  If possible, could we avoid
> this dependency as it is a very large package, or turn the error into
> a warning that mail wont work?

I'm sure we use many coreutils specials here and there.

> The attached patch addresses the uniq side of things, however the
> ordering of the patches with duplicate subjects wont be exactly the
> same, unless a sort is added back in.  Also, I havent had time to test
> this on many platforms.

Nice. We had already gotten rid of gensub, there is a slight excess of line 
continuations, and I'd rather not use 1 as a patch name; it's not all that 
unlikely, so I'm changing those minor details before committing.

Thanks,
Andreas