Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:19:10 +0000 From: Jamie Landeg Jones <jamie@dyslexicfish.net> To: wblock@wonkity.com, jamie@dyslexicfish.net Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/184791: [patch] man page for 'diff3' references 'info diff' instead of 'info diff3' Message-ID: <201401131619.s0DGJAK0002718@catnip.dyslexicfish.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1401051611190.7466@wonkity.com> References: <201312160621.rBG6LOZ1070718@catnip.dyslexicfish.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1312161428240.51221@wonkity.com> <20131217083511.GA7989@straylight.m.ringlet.net> <201401031525.s03FPj2v046272@catnip.dyslexicfish.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1401051320460.6170@wonkity.com> <201401052228.s05MSFd6005930@catnip.dyslexicfish.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1401051611190.7466@wonkity.com>
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Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > I looked a bit more. We currently have a fairly old version of > diffutils, 2.8.7. It's unlikely that newer versions will be imported > because they are GPL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/GPLinBase > > Instead, there is a project to import the OpenBSD versions: > https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2012/JesseHagewood > Current status is not clear. > > Given that, I don't see why we can't make interim changes to the GNU > versions present now. (And I'm sorry I didn't look at that earlier.) Ahhh ok. Better to always get fixes made upstream, but in this case, as we are no longer tracking the stream, may as well make the change until BSD diffs come into play! Cheers for your help, and sorry that something so trivial has become the biggest bikeshed ever..... For what it's worth, I'm now much clearer on the way we deal with contrib code. Cheers, Jamie
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