test failure for openssh-SNAP-20051125.tar.gz

[Mark D. Baushke]

Darren Tucker <dtucker at zip.com.au> writes:

> On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 01:03:51AM +0700, John Gatewood Ham wrote:
> > head: `-2000' option is obsolete; use `-n 2000'
> [...]
> 
> Sigh.  If anyone is ever talking to the GNU folks responsible for this,
> please point out that this breakage is unnecessary.  It's even covered
> in the POSIX.1 FAQ (Q 15):
> http://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/posix_faq.html

This was already fixed in coreutils 5.3.x (for x>0) as of 2005-04-26.

The URLs: http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/coreutils and
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils have coreutils-5.91.tar.gz of
2005-10-17 as the lastest stable snapshot as of today.

See also:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-04/msg00169.html

as well as

  http://www.opengroup.org/austin/docs/austin_239.html

Of course, just because the lastest development versions have been fixed
does not mean that some folks will not be impacted who happen to use
older releases of the GNU coreutils package. So, the patch you provided
is a good one in any case.

	-- Mark